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 .