COLOGNE.- After spectacular exhibitions as Personnes at the Monumenta 2010 in Paris, the current installation of the same name at the Foundation Hangar Bicocca in Milan, and “No Man’s Land” in the Park Avenue Armory in New York, perhaps the most prominent figure in French contemporary art, Christian Boltanski, (b. in Paris in 1944), is showing new works at the Kewenig Galerie. Entering the exhibition space of the gallery, the visitor first comes to a wall made of rusty, labelled, tin cans. The archival character of the work is lent a morbid touch by the rusty, slightly shabby quality of the tin cans. The black-edged name-labels recall the labelling in archives where the traces of persons are preserved for posterity. The black, mournful edging around the names causes us to conjecture that it is a matter here of deceased persons. Boltanski created the installation in 1994 under the title, The Work People of Halifax 1877 – 198