ARTIST’S BOOKS - Unoriginal Sins

UN ULTIME HOMMAGE TO A NOTRE CHER CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 2021. REPRINT OF POINT D’IRONIE NR 7.

paul robertson — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:53:07 +0000

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PERSONNES. 2019.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 19:16:51 +0000

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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LA MORT POUR RIRE. 2018. ONE OF 200 SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES.

paul robertson — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:21:03 +0000

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LIMITED EDITION COVER FOR WALLPAPER. APRIL 2018.

paul robertson — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:48:53 +0000

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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BOLTANSKI. OUDE KIRK. 2017.

paul robertson — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:08:08 +0000

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LIJST VAN BEGRAVEN PERSONEN IN DE OUDE KERK 1396 – 1865. 2017.

paul robertson — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:07:21 +0000

Amsterdam: Oude Kirk, 2017

20.5 x 14.5cm, 48pp plus typographic card covers. Artist's book distributed at the major artist's installation in the medieval church near to Amsterdam's red light district. The book lists all of the people buried in the church between the years of 1396 - 1865. Fine condition.

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THE SAFE HOUSE. A NOVEL. 2017.

paul robertson — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 14:21:31 +0000

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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DO IT. THE COMPENDIUM. 2013. WITH HANDWRITTEN “DO IT” BY BOLTANSKI, OLBIST & LAVIER>

paul robertson — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:10:15 +0000

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CHANCE. 2011.

paul robertson — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:52:52 +0000

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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UNTITLED. POINT D’IRONIE NR 50. 2010.

paul robertson — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:47:42 +0000

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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LES HABITANTS DU LOUVRE. 2009.

paul robertson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:50:13 +0000

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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THE POSSIBLE LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 2009.

paul robertson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:28:26 +0000

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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