Christian Boltanski: Personnes. Fondazione HangarBicocca, through 19 September
Currently on view in Milan is the Personnes project by the famous French artist Christian Boltanski, originally part of the Monumenta series exhibited at the Paris Grand Palais. Boltanski has always made much of the special relationship between a work of art and its venue; this time is no exception, and the installation has been specially adapted to suit the needs of Hangar Bicocca, the converted factory that has now become a popular destination for art lovers in Milan.
Boltanski's unique artistic language has always hinged on the concepts of memory, loss, experience and death. The Personnes installation is centred on a huge pile of clothes. According to Boltanski, the garments evoke associations with actual people. The crane placed next to the pile is like a symbol of the inexorable God's will. Its metallic hand is tossing the clothes chaotically, visualising the bitter truth: we are all of us depending on the randomness of destiny - none of us knows who is going to live and who is going to die.
For the last two years, Christian Boltanski has been collecting heartbeats for his Archives du Coeur (Heart Archives) project. The visitors can listen to the recorded heartbeats of some 400 different people; simultaneously played back, they seem reminiscent of a noise made by some weird factory machinery. However, as you approach a specific loudspeaker, a single individual heart can be heard beating. Anyone interested in recording his or her heartbeat can do so at the HangarBicocca show; the recordings are stored on the Japanese island of Teshima.
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