Christian Boltanski's Multiple Faces in artpress Interviews

A new publication from artpress compiles interviews with Christian Boltanski, exploring the artist's lifelong engagement with narrative, biography, and the tension between truth and falsehood. The book features conversations with Alain Fleischer, Étienne Hatt, Richard Leydier, Michel Nuridsany, and Didier Semin, plus a previously unpublished interview and a preface by Jean-Hubert Martin. Boltanski describes himself alternately as a puppet master and a magician who seeks to make people dream, while acknowledging the inevitability of loss and death. In the final interview, he reflects on his career themes, the current art scene, and changes driven by Facebook. The volume includes the quote: 'To make someone feel something, you have to exaggerate. It's Diderot's actor. You have to lie.'