02 Oct

Posted at 18:53h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Point d'Ironie, 2021 42 x 30cm, 8pp (self cover) a reprint of Nr 7 of the artist's serial publication Point d'Ironie that was given out free by Agnes B in 10,000 copies. Boltanski along with Hans Ulrich Obrist was the instigator of the publication and this reprint was issued in response to the artist's death in July of 2021. The reprint has four appropriated photographs from a girls' school in Hamburstrasse in Berlin in 1938 and Boltanski notes that "we will never know what these young girls were looking at and what made them laugh that day." Folded for storage else VG. JOINT 15 x 21cm, 2pp accompanying sheet explaining the work and listing the 63 other numbers from the run. VG+. ...

08 Nov

Posted at 19:16h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019 18.5 x 12cm, 94pp. Card covers. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue issued during the major Boltanski retrospective with c. 80 b/w images of found faces printed in such a manner as to resemble ghosts. Short texts in French by the artist. VG+.
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01 Nov

Posted at 09:21h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Galerie Marian Goodman, 2018
19.5 x 25.5 x 4.5cm, two part cloth covered box content of a lenticular photograph taking two images from Saynètes comiques of 1974 - where the artist's performance in a black suit and hat consisted of him pretending to hang himself - only to show in a second photograph that the rope was fake. The title translates to "Death for a Laugh". When one moves the photograph the viewer can see one or the other image. From the 2000s onwards, Boltanski has increasingly used lenticular prints.
This is one of 200 signed and numbered copies on a label on the inside of the box lid. VG+.

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09 Apr

Posted at 14:48h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

London: Wallpaper Magazine, 2018
30 x 22cm, 290pp plus wrappers. A single issue of this art and design magazine which has a 4pp interview with Boltanski on the eve of his first London exhibition for many years. There is a full page colour portrait of the artist and images in his studio.
The cover is a special design by Boltanski for the magazine which overlaps eyes from a face onto his light-bulb installation "Depart". VG+.

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24 Nov

Posted at 20:08h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Amsterdam: Oude Kirk, 2017
42 x 29cm, 4pp. Exhibition catalogue in tabloid newspaper format for the major installation in the old medieval church in the Old Town of Amsterdam. Four large images of the installations and text in Dutch. Folded as issued. VG+.

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09 Sep

Posted at 15:21h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017
22.5 x 14.3cm, 232pp plus boards and dust jacket. A novel by Botlanski's son heavily based on the story of the "Bolts" a family in Saint-Germain where the Jewish father had to go into hiding to avoid the nazis for several years. The book is obviously (and openly) based on the real life story of the Boltanski family). Near fine.

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09 Sep

Posted at 15:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

NYC: Independent Curators International, 2013
25.4 x 20.3cm, 448 plus card covers. A massive collective artist's book based on the original project by Obrist and Boltanski in 1993. All of the works are instruction based - the reader being expected to create the work as explained by the artist.
Boltanski offers two works - Les Ecoliers and Instruction both from 1993.
Slight mark from previous price label on front cover. Internally on the first blank page Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist have written "do it" and signed under each phrase.

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04 Jun

Posted at 22:52h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Venice: French Pavilion, 2010
42. x 30.4cm, 8pp, The artist's book and exhibiition catalogue for the magnificent major installation at the Venice Biennale where Boltanski was the official representative for France. The major installation consisted of a long roll of photographic images of baby faces which moved at speed over long distances on a scaffolding - every now and then the roll would stop and and image based on three section of different faces was projected onto a screen. The genetic lottery in life being paralleled in the work. Other installations displayed the numebr of deaths and births taking place world-wide during the exhibition. There is a text by Jacques Roubaud and an interview with the artist along with David Walsh and Jean-Hubert-Martin.
VG+ although folded for storage. Three versions in French, English and Italian were published - this collection holds an example of each.

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18 May

Posted at 22:47h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2010
43.4 x 30.7cm, 8pp, A single number of the artist's periodical which invites a single artist to create an artist's book. This is one of two such publications by Boltanski in the series - he also did number 26, eight years earlier. The pages display one of the artist's major installations in the Palais des Beaux-arts in Paris where he massed vast numbers of second-hand clothing. Folded for storage else VG+. Published in a large edition size of 10,000 copies and distributed in the various boutique of Agnes b.

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19 Oct

Posted at 16:50h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris, Dilecta/Musée du Louvre, 2009
23 x 17.5cm, 120pp pluw printed boards including 40 illustrations b/w. This first edition of the artist's book lists all of the artists found in the museum alphabetically within various rather contrived groupings. Boltanski has added 40 constructions where b/w reproductions of portraits of artists and employees of the museum have been cut up and recombined with half of the upper faces being attached to a different artist/employee's lower face - much like a children's card game. One of 2,000 copies. VG++.

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09 Jul

Posted at 15:28h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Boston: MFA Publications, 2009
21 x 15cm, 240pp plus boards and dust jacket. A biography of sorts based on a long interview between the artist and Catherine Grenier. Sixteen b/w plates of works and photographs of the artist. A very useful reference and probably as close to an honest recounting of the history of the artist's life (although memory seems to have caused some incorrect recollections of particularly early activities based on documentation we hold in this archive). Near fine.

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