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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI (1944, Paris, France)
His
artistic career began when he left formal education at the age of 12,
at which point he started painting and drawing. Since the 1960s, he has
worked with the ephemera of the human experience, from obituary
photographs to rusted biscuit tins. Several of Boltanski's projects have
used actual lost property from public spaces, such as railway stations,
creating collections which memorialise the unknown owners in the
cacophony of personal effects. "I come to my studio every day at 10.30,
and I stay and do nothing. I go to Paris sometimes. I have a few ideas.
To be very pretentious, sometimes I believe it is mystical. Sometimes
you find nothing, and then you find some-thing you love to do. Sometimes
you make mistakes, but some-times it's true. In two minutes, you
understand what you must do for the next two years. Sometimes it's in
the studio, but other times it's walking in the street or reading a
magazine. It's a good life, being an artist, because you do what you
want".
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Publications: • Lodermeyer, Peter,
Karlyn De Jongh & Sarah Gold, PERSONAL STRUCTURES: TIME SPACE
EXISTENCE, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany, 2009
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