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mon­u­menta 2010 grand palais

paris 13 jan­u­ary — 21 feb­ru­ary 2010

mon­u­menta is one of the major inter­na­tional events in which an artist takes pos­ses­sion of an archi­tec­tural space to develop his/her vision. The entire archi­tec­ture of the build­ing becomes a part of that art­work and cre­ates dia­logues between archi­tec­ture, space and instal­la­tion. Each year a lead­ing inter­na­tional con­tem­po­rary artist is invited by the french min­istry of cul­ture and com­mu­ni­ca­tion to cre­ate an excep­tional new work.

The mak­ing of this years installation,

“An artist has no life ; he is only the oth­ers’ mirror”

Christian Boltanski is among those artists whose life and work fos­ter each other. In his art­works both col­lec­tive and per­sonal mem­ory meet and join in an inces­sant effort to face and sur­mount obliv­ion and death.

Born in Paris at the end of World War II, his work is deeply affected by the drama of the war and the Shoah. After a child­hood of barely any school­ing, rooted in the para­doxes of a famil­ial milieu both Jewish and Christian, bour­geois and bohemian, he began teach­ing him­self to paint from the age of four­teen, before learn­ing about con­tem­po­rary art on his own.

link to Monumenta 2010 >