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This major exhibition of French artist Christian Boltanski's work—a
profound and disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, and personal
histories—was divided roughly into three parts: a room of shadow figures
(Les Ombres); a group of works of children's faces projected onto
white sheets (Jewish School of Grosse Hamburgerstrasse in Berlin in
1938); and several Monuments, including a piece titled Twenty Dead
Swiss which was purchased for the Kemper Museum by a Kansas City community
organization, Museum Without Walls. Boltanski has spent his artistic life
working with the most ethereal of materials—newspaper clippings, snapshots,
clothing, candles, lightbulbs—using the photograph as the central
image in his work. He installed his exhibition and attended the opening
reception. |
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