Monuments

細節

Christian Boltanski (b. 1944)
Monuments
fifty panels and five photographs in artist's frames and fifteen electric bulbs
overall: 87¼ x 42 7/8 x 3in. (222 x 109 x 7.6cm.)
Executed in 1985

來源

Elisabeth Kaufmann Collection, Basel.
Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis.
Estate of John M. and Marion A. Shea, Christie's New York, 19 November 1997, lot 341.
Private Collection, Portugal.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Paris, 8 December 2009, lot 27.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

注意事項

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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拍品專文

This work is registered with the Boltanski archives under no. 0609.
'Yes there is something contradictory in my work, in that it is about relics but at the same time it's very much against relics. Part of my work has been about what I call 'small memory'. Large memory is recorded in books and small memory is all about little things: trivia, jokes. Part of my work then has been about trying to preserve 'small memory' that 'small memory' is what makes people different from one another, unique. These memories are very fragile; I wanted to save them.' (The artist quoted in 'Christian Boltanski Tamar Garb in Conversation', in Press Play; Contemporary Artists in Conversation, London 2005, p. 41).