Christian
boltanski “theatre d’ombre”
On this piece Christian Boltanski represents
the collaboration between light and shadow demonstrating his work by shining a
lamp on it and looking at the silhouette on the wall behind, two works of art
in one. He gets his inspiration from the suffering of the holocaust as all of his
work is mainly death related although because the metal sculptures are free to
move their shadows often appear to be dancing in the light giving a sense of
life to the work. I don’t particularly like his work, I like things to be down
on paper and detailed, for me it’s a little chaotic but I do get the reasoning
behind it he obviously tried to create something that was giving the feeling of
a graveyard and because they looked like they were dancing it brought some life
to the piece. This I think was mainly for the families to try and make their
loved ones who had died in the holocaust live again. He managed to create these
tiny delicate pieces to create quite a large statement that were once deathly
but the shadows made them lively some of the faces have smirks on them maybe
they were meant to be authoritive figures mixed in with the withering prisoners.
http://www.seditionart.com/christian_boltanski/theatre_d_ombres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrFplT3Nug
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