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Christian BOLTANSKI (1944-2021) - Lot 192

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Christian BOLTANSKI (1944-2021) - Lot 192
Christian BOLTANSKI (1944-2021) The Monuments, 1985 Large color polaroid print, fixed with four pins in a blackened wooden slipcase. 63.5 x 54 x 6 cm During the month of March 1985, thirteen artists were locked in the cellars of the Centre Georges Pompidou. Each was invited to use the large 50 x 60 cm Polaroid chamber for one day. Christian Boltanski used the chamber simply as a reproduction device, from which he made six prints. "What interested me was the absence of technical problems in relation to the image I wanted. The work I produced has an oratorical quality, linked to the idea of the icon. I used a class photo of myself, which belonged to the Museum's collections. It's more like using a black-and-white class photo with color: it's like the DIY work of a lonely, manic old man. That's what I wanted to evoke, the discrepancy between something very modern, which doesn't really interest me, and something quite intimate." Provenance: Galerie de France, Paris; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (1989 exhibition); Gilles Dusein, Galerie Urbi et Urbi, Paris ; Jean-Luc Maeso, Paris; Emmy de Martelaere, Paris; private collection, Paris. Bibliography: Collectif, Atelier Polaroid, Paris, Édition du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1985.
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