Instalaţie în postmodernism

Installation works in the eighties and nineties became increasingly important as a medium for artists who wanted to assert a vivid, emotional experience. But if Kabakov is the master of what he has called “total installation”, some of the younger installation artists have moved toward a deliberately less defined expressive character in their work; these installations are both more diffuse in personality and experientially open-ended, in a post-modern sense. Despite the loaded subject matter evoked by Christian Boltanski, for example, his own character is less delineated and less clearly set into the foreground of his work.