Boltanski, Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris: 13 November 2019-16 March 2020

Famous for blurring the boundaries between his life and work, Boltanski has explored an impressive array of formats -visual arts, photography, sculpture and filmmaking- using different materials and means of artistic expressions to explore the edge between the absent and the present.

Boltanski began painting in 1958 and  less than 10 years later he started experimenting with other forms of artistic expression. He wrote letters and files that he then sent to personalities in the art world, using photocopies, original documents and photographs taken from his family albums. One of his most relevant features is the integration of elements from his personal universe to his works, making biography one of his main themes. According to him "Good artists have no life, their only life is to tell what seems to each his own story."

This retrospective exhibition follows a maze-like itinerary that celebrates Boltanski and his oeuvre:a combination of art of memory with an ongoing reflection on Western society rites that result in a sensitive but somewhat corrosive work.

Centre Pompidou

Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris