www.jupiterartland.org:
Animitas is comprised of more than two hundred small Japanese bells, each of which is attached to a long stem planted on the island within Jupiter Artland s Duck Pond. The bells chime in the wind, letting out what Boltanski described as the music of the souls .
www.noguchi.org:
Boltanski installed 800 small bronze bells suspended from steel stems of various heights arranged to mimic the position of the stars on the night of his birth. Twisting in the wind, the bells play a gently cacophonous music of lost souls'.
www.noguchi.org:
Boltanski s affiliation with Japanese ways of thinking and in particular his long embrace of the ways the transience of human existence shapes the human condition is fundamental to his overall perspective. The Animitas installations are part of a larger body of work that includes another of Boltanski s long-term projects, Les Archives du Coeur (2008 ), an ongoing effort to record and store the heartbeats of people all over the world in a sort of museum of spirits. Les Archives du Coeur, to which all are invited to contribute the sound of their hearts, is also based on Teshima and administered by Benesse Art Site Naoshima. Weaving together multiple instances of these gardens, and the souls they memorialize, Boltanski extends the intimate, borderless, ephemeral network of loss and memory that constitutes his life s work.
www.jupiterartland.org:
Animitas is one of Christian Boltanski s most impressive large scale outdoor installations. The bells are consciously placed to reproduce the map of the stars on the night the artist was born, 6 September 1944.
Boltanski s commemoration of his own life is joined by a dedication to remembering the lives of others Animitas was intended to be an auditory counterpart to the Chilean tradition of animitas memorial shrines.
www.wikipedia.org:
Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations in 1986 with light as essential concept. Tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed and manipulated photographs (e.g. Le Lyc e Chases, 1986 1987), photographs of Jewish schoolchildren taken in Vienna in 1931, used as a forceful reminder of mass murder of Jews by the Nazis, all those elements and materials used in his work are used in order to represent deep contemplation regarding reconstruction of past. While creating Reserve (exhibition at Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel in 1989), Boltanski filled rooms and corridors with worn clothing items as a way of inciting profound sensation of human tragedy at concentration camps. As in his previous works, objects serve as relentless reminders of human experience and suffering. His piece, Monument (Odessa), uses six photographs of Jewish students in 1939 and lights to resemble Yahrzeit candles to honor and remember the dead. 'My work is about the fact of dying, but it's not about the Holocaust itself.' In 1971 Boltanski produced his installation, L' Album de la famille D. 1939-1964.
Additionally, his enormous installation titled 'No Man's Land' (2010) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten.
www.wikipedia.org:
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 - 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style.
Boltanski was born in Paris on 6 September 1944. His father, étienne Alexandre Boltanski, a physician, was Jewish and had come to France from Russia, while Marie-Elise Ilari-Guérin, his Roman Catholic mother originated from Corsica, descended from Ukrainian Jews.
His Jewish heritage was a large influence in Boltanski's household. During World War II, while living in Paris, his father escaped deportation by hiding in a space under the floorboards of the family apartment for a year and a half. Christian grew up with this knowledge, and his early experiences with wartime affairs deeply affected him. These experiences would influence his artwork later on. He dropped out of school at age 12.
Animitas is comprised of more than two hundred small Japanese bells, each of which is attached to a long stem planted on the island within Jupiter Artland s Duck Pond. The bells chime in the wind, letting out what Boltanski described as the music of the souls .
www.noguchi.org:
Boltanski installed 800 small bronze bells suspended from steel stems of various heights arranged to mimic the position of the stars on the night of his birth. Twisting in the wind, the bells play a gently cacophonous music of lost souls'.
www.noguchi.org:
Boltanski s affiliation with Japanese ways of thinking and in particular his long embrace of the ways the transience of human existence shapes the human condition is fundamental to his overall perspective. The Animitas installations are part of a larger body of work that includes another of Boltanski s long-term projects, Les Archives du Coeur (2008 ), an ongoing effort to record and store the heartbeats of people all over the world in a sort of museum of spirits. Les Archives du Coeur, to which all are invited to contribute the sound of their hearts, is also based on Teshima and administered by Benesse Art Site Naoshima. Weaving together multiple instances of these gardens, and the souls they memorialize, Boltanski extends the intimate, borderless, ephemeral network of loss and memory that constitutes his life s work.
www.jupiterartland.org:
Animitas is one of Christian Boltanski s most impressive large scale outdoor installations. The bells are consciously placed to reproduce the map of the stars on the night the artist was born, 6 September 1944.
Boltanski s commemoration of his own life is joined by a dedication to remembering the lives of others Animitas was intended to be an auditory counterpart to the Chilean tradition of animitas memorial shrines.
www.wikipedia.org:
Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations in 1986 with light as essential concept. Tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed and manipulated photographs (e.g. Le Lyc e Chases, 1986 1987), photographs of Jewish schoolchildren taken in Vienna in 1931, used as a forceful reminder of mass murder of Jews by the Nazis, all those elements and materials used in his work are used in order to represent deep contemplation regarding reconstruction of past. While creating Reserve (exhibition at Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel in 1989), Boltanski filled rooms and corridors with worn clothing items as a way of inciting profound sensation of human tragedy at concentration camps. As in his previous works, objects serve as relentless reminders of human experience and suffering. His piece, Monument (Odessa), uses six photographs of Jewish students in 1939 and lights to resemble Yahrzeit candles to honor and remember the dead. 'My work is about the fact of dying, but it's not about the Holocaust itself.' In 1971 Boltanski produced his installation, L' Album de la famille D. 1939-1964.
Additionally, his enormous installation titled 'No Man's Land' (2010) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten.
www.wikipedia.org:
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 - 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style.
Boltanski was born in Paris on 6 September 1944. His father, étienne Alexandre Boltanski, a physician, was Jewish and had come to France from Russia, while Marie-Elise Ilari-Guérin, his Roman Catholic mother originated from Corsica, descended from Ukrainian Jews.
His Jewish heritage was a large influence in Boltanski's household. During World War II, while living in Paris, his father escaped deportation by hiding in a space under the floorboards of the family apartment for a year and a half. Christian grew up with this knowledge, and his early experiences with wartime affairs deeply affected him. These experiences would influence his artwork later on. He dropped out of school at age 12.