Monumenta 2010Personnes by Christian Boltanksi

Following the success of the first two MONUMENTA events, featuring Anselm Kiefer in 2007 and Richard Serra in 2008, leading French artist Christian Boltanski takes up the Monumenta challenge in 2010. His new installation, created especially for MONUMENTA 2010, is conceived as a powerful physical and psychological experience, an episode of spectacular emotion and sensations exploring the nature and meaning of human existence. Embracing the whole of the immense Nave of the Grand Palais, Boltanski creates a rich, intense commemorative space, in sound and vision. Personnes is the evocative title of this social, religious and humanistic exploration of life, memory and the irreductible individuality of each and every human existence - together with the presence of death, the dehumanisation of the body, chance and destiny.

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