Christian Boltanski

using heartbeats – reminiscent of Brian O’Doherty’s Portrait of Marcel Duchamp: Mounted Cardiogram
“He deals in traces rather than ghosts, with shadows and lists, photographs of the dead and piles of old clothes.”
“There are more people alive now than ever before.”

“What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly.”
“The big difference between painter and artist is that some art is to do with space and other art is to do with time” – some artist’s videos are more like paintings because they are more of a space product (like sculpture), there is no sense of a beginning, middle and an end
” 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.”

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