[JEANSELLEM VIEWER] — CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI FASCICULES ET DIVERS DOCUMENTS 13-25.09.1974 — Categories: press — Keywords: Galerie S:t Petri, Jean Sellem, archive — — — — — — — Category: press — <p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">KVP, 22 September 1974</span></p> — An unadorned verdictTo rediscover childhood’s intense and fresh experience of the world is a dream often shared by writers and artists. It provides them with rich material for creation, but can easily turn into a nostalgic search for something that is nevertheless irretrievably lost.Part of the French artist Christian Boltanski’s exhibition at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund concerns the search for childhood memories and events from birth up to the artist’s sixth year. One of his methods of reviving and preserving these events is to have himself photographed in places where he played as a child.Gunnar Brühammar — At the openingBy returning to these places and observing other children, he believed he might rediscover his own existence and hold on to time. In the exhibition we see a series of photographs of the artist at various playgrounds. Another method, of which we are not shown examples, is his ‘preservation’ of childhood memories: a baby romper, a lock of hair, a school reader, etc., sealed in containers.Photographs of this kind are not made to be beautiful or to flatter good taste. They should rather be regarded as documentary material that gives a simple and factual account of ideas and events. For Boltanski they also seem to serve as a means of finding or rediscovering his identity. Since he himself appears in the photographs of the playgrounds, someone else must have acted as photographer — and there is nothing to suggest that this was a professional photographer or artist.Christian Boltanski has appeared in a number of major exhibitions on the European continent. He represents a current tendency in modern art in which subtle, individualistic creation has been replaced by an unadorned account. — — — Category: press — — — Category: press — Photography ExhibitionChristian Boltanski is exhibiting photographs at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from 13 to 25 September 1974. This is the first time he has shown his work in a solo exhibition in Sweden. He has, however, taken part in group exhibitions at Södertälje Konsthall and Galerie S:t Petri.At the beginning of his artistic career, he wanted to recover everything that had happened to him from birth until the age of six: a school reader, a lock of hair, a baby romper (1969). He then tried to preserve moments of his life by conserving various objects in metal tins, thereby continually being able to rediscover his own existence.Christian Boltanski’s reconstruction of his own past is fictitious. Only some of the objects, such as old photographs, invitation cards or letters, come from his actual surroundings. Through his photographs he seeks to “hold on to time”, albeit fragmentarily.This exhibition also presents images that Boltanski cut out of a magazine specialising in crimes and tragic events. Christian Boltanski has had numerous exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Argentina and Japan, and has made films as well as a record.The exhibition is open on the opening day from 5 to 8 p.m., weekdays from 3 to 8 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon to 5 p.m. — — — Category: press — PHOTO EXHIBITION. Christian Boltanski has his first solo exhibition in Sweden from 13 to 25 September at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund. He reconstructs his own past with photographs, etc. He also shows images from a magazine specialising in crimes and tragic events. — — — Category: press — <p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">ARB, 12 September 1974</span></p> — He shows pictures at S:t PetriLUND: Christian Boltanski from France is exhibiting photographs at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund from 13 to 25 September 1974. This is the first time he has shown his work in a solo exhibition in Sweden. He has, however, participated in group exhibitions at Södertälje Konsthall and Galerie S:t Petri.This exhibition presents images that Boltanski cut out of a magazine specializing in crimes and tragic events.Christian Boltanski has had numerous exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Argentina and Japan, and has made films as well as a record.The exhibition is open on the opening day from 5–8 p.m., weekdays from 3–8 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 12–5 p.m.