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Christian Boltanski was born in occupied Paris in 1944 to a Jewish father and a Corsican mother. He is known for a body of work that may be considered a disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, and personal histories. His death-obsessed creations have earned him an international reputation. He has spent his artistic life working with the most ephemeral of materials -- newspaper clippings, photographs, found snapshots, clothing, candles, light bulbs, old biscuit tins to examine and mar (showing 500 of 4966 characters). |
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