Dijon, France: Le Consortium, 1985. 10,4x15,2 cm. Bifolium.

Exhibition invitation card. Near Fine.

When he was invited by the Le Consortium museum in Dijon to execute an installation in situ, Boltanski drew on another piece he had produced in Dijon in 1973 at the Les Lentillères secondary school, where he covered the walls of a corridor with photographs of the students, in the manner of a columbarium. With the idea that after ten years the children would now be adults, he made Les Enfants de Dijon (The Children of Dijon), attaching light bulbs and cables to their enlarged portraits. He then created his first Monuments in 1986, adding monochromatic prints of blue, red and gold metallic Christmas paper in pyramid and altar-shaped compositions. [The Christian Boltanski Endowment Fund (fdCB)].