The
New York Public L i b r a r y
presents
An Art Book
Christian Boltanski, Catherine Grenier and Mark Polizzotti
Tuesday September 15,
2009
6:00 p.m.
Margaret Liebman
Berger Forum
Room 227
Stephen
A.
Schwarzman
Building
476
Fifth
Avenue
5
th
Avenue
and
42nd Street
New York
,
NY
10018
212-340-0871
directions
Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m.
All events are FREE
and subject to last minute change or
cancellation.
The program series
An Art Book
is a
celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events
showcase book presentations by world renowned artists, critics, historians,
curators and writers.
Christian
Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the
fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him
one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. Despite the centrality
of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little known
and has never been fully told. Published on the occasion of the artist's sixty-fifth
birthday,
The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
published by MFA F Publications and distributed by
D.A.P.
, is Boltanski’s
oral autobiography written in the form of a book-length interview with the art
historian Catherine Grenier. In this program Grenier and Polizzotti will
converse with Boltanski and touch upon some of the issues in the book.
Born
in
France
on September 6, 1944,
Christian Boltanski
has exhibited
throughout the world, and his objects and installations are now included in
many major collections. His work will be the subject of important presentations
in
New York
and
Paris
in the spring of 2010.
Catherine
Grenier
, a curator and
art historian, was recently named director of new exhibition spaces at the
Centre Pompidou in
Paris
.
Mark
Polizzotti
is the
author of
Revolution of the Mind: the Life of Andre Breton
and director
of publications at the
Museum
of
Fine Arts
,
Boston
.
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