Free gallery talk: "Boltanski, Monument to the Lycée Chases"
Christian Boltanski was born in Paris in the wake of its liberation from Fascist control. Perhaps as a result of his childhood experiences, he has explored themes of memory, death, and mourning in a variety of media—film, paint, photography, and found objects. His evocative, often ephemeral installations archive and memorialize anonymous individual loss. "Monument to the Lycée Chases" is part of a series of works Boltanski began in 1987, inspired by a found photograph of the 1931 graduating class from a private Jewish high school in Vienna, Austria. His re-photographed images are mere silhouettes or intimations of corporal presences that together comprise a moving meditation on loss and endurance.
Date and Time
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Sunday, August 18, 2pm–3pm
Location
University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 South State St
Ann Arbor MI 48109
Fees/Admission
Free

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