Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, self-proclaimed painter, and installation artist. Boltanski was born in Paris to a Jewish father of Ukrainian heritage, and a Corsican mother. He lives and works in Malakoff, and is married to the artist Annette Messager, with whom he sometimes collaborates. His artistic work is haunted by the problems of death, memory and loss; he often seeks to memorialize the anonymous and those who have disappeared.
Image: Christian Boltanski, Monument: The Children of Dijon, installation, Paris, Salpetriere Chapel, 1986
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