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Christian Boltanski/Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paperback / softback Book

Christian Boltanski/Hans Ulrich Obrist Paperback / softback

Part of the Conversation Series series

Paperback / softback

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Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski are not only associated through their longstanding friendship: Boltanski was also the first artist that Obrist ever exhibited.

Over the course of this friendship the two have often met for discussions, the earliest of which, from 1994, are published here.

Whether on a taxi-boat in Venice, in his atelier or at an exhibition in Ljubljana, Botanski readily divulges information on his projects.

His collaborations with other artists such as Ilya Kabakov, which have also led him into the field of performance arts such as opera and dance, are a particular theme of the conversations; on occasion, other interlocutors step in, such as the designer Jean Kalman or the sociologist Luc Boltanski (Christian Boltanski's brother).

The result is an informal portrait of one of the most important artists of our time.

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