Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
10.6 x 16cm, 48pp plus card covers with printed dust jacket. Artist's book with four folded over pages that have one text on the outside that reveals the second text when opened.
Neoclassical Thaumaturgy
opens to
The gods fly faster than sound.
A monostich is a one line poem. VG+.
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Krefeld: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1991 21 x 10cm, 8pp (single folded sheet) plus 4pp typographic insert. A posthumous retrospective with four works in colour o and a text in German. VG+. ...
Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1991
20.5 x 16 x 2.6cm, two part printed cardboard box content of a 17.7 x 12.5cm, 14pp (recto only) leporello booklet which has 14 images of the artist's cut out and cheaply made figures. One of only 500 copies released. Similar to the artist's grotesques where assemblage sculptures were made from household objects, these figures are mostly dancing skeletons in white against a flat black background.
There is a colophon card in black on brown also inserted into the box. VG+. Scarce.
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Glasgow: s.p. (Monk), 1991
3 x 4cm, black on white adhesive label with the text: "ONE OF A THOUSAND ARTWORKS BY JONATHAN MONK" printed on them. This is one of 1,000 such sticky labels produced each as an artwork. A very early object/print multiple by the artist.
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Pittsberg: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1991
21 x 14cm, 40pp. Original card covers. Artist's book listing in alphabetical order all of the participants of the Carnegie International from 1896 to 1991 (Boltanski took part in 1991 and his name is included), VG+
JOINT AS ISSUED:
17.5 x 13cm, original b/w silver gelatine print showing Boltanski's installation in the Carnegie International which is signed on the back.
One of only 100 such books and photographs as a deluxe edition. Both VG++.
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Firenze: Galleria Victoria Miro, 1991 15 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with one stone work on the front (GROVE - showing a camouflaged tank) and internally gallery details. Very slight ding to top left corner of card else VG+. ...
Paris, Jean Daviot et Bernard Marcadé, automne 1991,
35 x 30 cm (opens out to 70 x 60cm), 2pp. A single number of this artist's publications which is dedicated to a single artist - here, obviously, Boltanski who reproduces two pages from the Spanish "detective" magazine "El Caso Criminal".
This is one of 200 signed and numbered examples aside from the larger run of the magazine. Folded as issued else VG+.
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Frankfurt Am Main: Portikus, 1991
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a solo show of installation works. One such work in b/w on the front, verso gallery details. VG+.
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Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1991 25.4 x 20cm, b/w silver gelatine press photograph taken by John Ravenal in 1990 in Little Sparta and distributed for the exhibition Ian Hamilton Finlay Matrix 116. The gate behind him reads Julie et Saint Preux - a reference to Rousseau's 1761 novel "Julie, or the New Heloise" where the two protagonists are lovers at the behest of Julie's unknowing husband who invites St Preux to educate his wife. Information label verso else VG+. ...
Koln: Michael Werner, 1991
9.5 x 12.5cm, 1pp typographic invitation card for the exhibition opening. VG+.
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Koln: Galerie Michael Werner, 1991 44 x 57cm, 1pp colour poster on thin paper showing an image of the white sculpture "The Sleeping Beauty" which is a rectangular block of white marble against a black background. Folded as issued to allow mailing in a white printed envelope (9.5 x 21.5cm) with the gallery address. This envelope has been posted to the photographer Benjamin Katz. Both VG+. ...
New York City: Marian Goodman Gallery 1991
20.3 × 22.8 × 5cm two part tin box and two photographs glued and mounted on the inside lid and bottom of the box. The bottom image is of a Jewish school from Hamberg in 1938 taken just before the war began. Obviously the crimes of the National Socialists led to the deliberate massacre of Jewish people throughout Germany. The photograph in the top of the box is an enlarged detail from the photograph of a girl. One does not know her fate - it could have been very tragic and more than likely so.The photograph on the lid is lined with lightly creased and glued paper - creating a frame that is somewhat like a shroud.BR>
There was a serial edition of 40 - with each box in the edition unique with a different face enlarged on the top. Signed and numbered on a label below the class photograph by Boltanski. The box is deliberately tarnished and the lid has a lot of oxidation which Boltanski deliberately encouraged by "watering" his stocks of the boxes which he kept for future use in such works.
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