Christian Boltanski
Danach

4 Sep 2010 - 30 Oct 2010
Berlin

Christian Boltanski, Danach

After spectacular exhibitions as "Personnes“ at the Monumenta 2010 in Paris, the current installation of the same name at the Foundation Hangar Bicocca in Milan, and "No Man’s Land“ at the Park Avenue Armory in New York perhaps the most prominent figure in French contemporary art, Christian Boltanski, who was born in Paris in 1944, is showing new works at the Kewenig Galerie. Entering the exhibition space of the gallery, the visitor runs in a labyrinth-formed installation of rusty, labelled, tin cans. The archival character of the work is lent a morbid touch by the rusty, slightly shabby quality of the tin cans. The name-labels recall the labelling in archives where the traces of persons are preserved for posterity. The black, mournful edging around the names causes us to conjecture that it is a matter here of deceased persons. Boltanski created the installation in 1995 under the title, The Work People

Installation views

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Works

Containers
Conversation Piece
La Vie Impossible
Le Lit
Les images modèles
Odessa
Odessa
Odessa
Odessa
Ombres bougies
Petit container
Petit container
Tableaux Noirs
The Work People of Halifax
Untitled
Untitled (Fille morte)

Christian Boltanski

Tableaux Noirs
Tableaux Noirs, 2007
B/w photograph, acrylic paint, framed, lamp and cable
129 x 169 cm