LECON DES TENEBRES. 1986.

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986<BR>
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp full colour announcement card with an image from the shadow play installation on the front and verso museum details. The title “LECON DES TENEBRES.” translates to “LESSON OF DARKNESS’ and the work with its strong lighting and deeply black shadows and grotesque images – which are expanded in size because of the projection on to a wall – is a little unsettling.<BR>
Like other installations Boltanski allows the guts of the simple projection techniques to be seen – the lights are modern halogens, the cables are left exposed, the hand made puppets and shapes can be seen as well as their projections behind them. The artificiality is on show.<BR>
One might muse as to Plato’s allegory of the cave as an influence or a metaphor for unknowing – but we will do that elsewhere.
VG+. <BR><BR>