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Mixed Media
Monument
Christian Boltanski, (Paris, France, 1944 - 2021, Paris, France)
Boltanski, Christian
France
1944 - 2021
Male
77 x 59 in. (195.6 x 149.9 cm)
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overall
1986
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1986
Mixed Media
The faces of the children included in Christian Boltanski’s Monument seem eerily familiar. While the scale of this piece and the arrangement of the images is reminiscent of a memorial, these same eyes could peer out at us from photo albums or yearbooks; faces of individuals who are still alive but no longer young. Boltanski, who is fascinated with the suggestive power of imagery and the role of memory in shaping our relationship with his work, has said, “What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is so unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly.”
[Hawks Gallery reinstallation, summer 2019]
2004.13
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/23/2004
2004.13DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2004.13DI#2
digital image
9/12/2019
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