Christian Boltanski obituary

Artist who made his name through a tireless engagement with death in work based around discarded objects and imagesIn 2009, the Tasmanian art collector David Walsh commissioned a piece of work from Christian Boltanski called La Vie de CB. As the title suggested, the completion of this was to take Boltanski the rest of his life. That, in fact, was the point of it.Walsh had made his millions through gambling, Boltanski his name as an artist by a tireless engagement with death. Under the terms of t