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Ballet If You Stumble Make It Part Of The Dance Shirt! In his youth, the late French artist Christian Boltanski liked to recount that he devised a novel, if a somewhat languid method for traversing vast halls of masterpieces (and for an ambitious, potentially terrifying) of the Louvre Museum. . Upon entering, he will find an attractive young woman and follow her at a discreet distance, completely unnoticed by her, but will stop whenever she stops, to stop. back and look at the work she chose. I think of that story as I walk through the same maze, sacred halls recently, when Christian, who passed away in July, is being honored by a trio of major Paris museums. His permanent installations were opened that day at the Louvre and Château de Versailles, and that evening in the garage of the Center Pompidou there will be a re-performance, for a single night. and with singers from Opéra Comique, of Fosse, his avant-garde, visionary opera, a dangling musical, a world without beginning or end, created in collaboration with Jean Kalman and Franck Krawczyk and performed for the first time in January 2020.
What am I doing there? The artist played an important role in my young life. We first met decades ago, at the beginning of a year I spent working on my doctoral thesis in Paris when a friend in the art world in New York on vacation took me to visit the studio. drawings by several artists, working-class, Paris suburb of Malakoff. We had grown especially close in the 1990s, from what was perhaps a shared sense of despair. He soon achieved a remarkable measure of success in the world. Ballet If You Stumble Make It Part Of The Dance Shirt! He was best known at the time for a series of haunting works in which he arranged black and white archival photographs (almost imperceptibly blurred), weathered tin biscuit tins, and electric lamps (ceiling bulbs or lamps one imagines being used in interrogations) into altars that evoke memories both personally and historically especially Shoah, which marked his life. (More on that later.) But he still kept the habit, starting when he first started, of feigning despair, and the occasional act of acting became a reality.
