Born in 1944
French nationality
Artistic movement : post-conceptual and minimalism
Number of works in the collection : 5

LISTEN TO THE CULTURAL MEDIATOR’S COMMENTARY

Mathilde accompanies you during your visit:

QUOTES FROM THE ARTIST

“The artist reveals to the spectator something that was already in him, that he knows deeply; he brings it to the height of consciousness.”

“Basically, I’m a painter. I left school when I was 14, which was a chance for me. It was also at that age that I did my first paintings. After that, I think I’m very interested in visuals, images, videos. For the last 20 or 30 years, painting has been interested in other fields of art. Today, I define myself as an artist, which is a universal notion.”

“When you’re an artist, you have the face of someone else’s wish.”

IN THE EYES OF YVON LAMBERT

“[The work presented, entitled The Black Images], is, in my opinion, a perfect bridge between the minimal works in my collection and actual concerns of some contemporary artists. Indeed, the very minimal play lies in this set of black monochromes that recall those of Brice Marden, Allan McCollum or, further back in time, Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt. But the arrangement of these black frames evokes less the death of painting, advocated by the great masters of American Art from the late 1950s onwards, than the disappearance of the images as elements of fading memory.”

AN ADDITIONAL RESOURCE TO WATCH

Youtube, Fondation Louis Vuitton – [In Tune with the World] Interview of Christian Boltanski