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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, TO REPRESENT FRANCE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE, PREPARES ‘SIGNATURES’ FOR ES BALUARD
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, TO REPRESENT FRANCE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE, PREPARES 'SIGNATURES' FOR ES BALUARD
Christian Boltanski (Paris, 1944) has been chosen to represent France at the 54th Venice Biennale, from June 4 to November 27, 2011. The renowned artist will participate with an installation called Chance, which will be exhibited in this country's pavillion and address issues such as good and bad luck and chance.
The French artist (at the image, with the Es Baluard's director, Cristina Ros, and the gallery owner Michael Kewenig in September 2010 in Es Baluard) is currently working on the installation Signatures, which will be presented in Baluard from July 1 to September 25, 2011. The work, designed specifically to be placed in the museum's Aljub, explores the concept of memory from the brands that the workers of the Es Baluard's wall and Aljub made in the stones in order to collect his work. The Es Baluard's collection owns a work by Christian Boltanski, Le Juif errant (2001).
Son of a Christian mother and Jewish father, Christian Boltanski has focused much of his work from his origins. The Holocaust, memory, death are some of the topics referred to his work, which includes photography, sculpture, film and, especially, installations.