15 Sep

Posted at 14:34h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris (Malakoff): Maison des Arts - Centre d'art contemporain de Malakoff, 2007
21 x 15cm, a book consisting of ten images of colour images faces that have been cut into three sections each and spine bound (plus front and back covers). The splitting allows the viewer to recombine the 30 sections to create new combinations of faces. Boltanski has used this format (found in children's books more commonly) in other works including CHANCE at the Biennale of Venice. Malakoff is the area of Paris where the artist was born and also now lives.
Book was issued during the exhibition of the same title also in Malakoff. VG+ condition and surprisingly hard to find.

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10 Jun

Posted at 08:58h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Ustica: Museo per la memoria di Ustica, n.d. (2007) 21 x 14cm, 40pp (mostly printed recto only) plus card covers. Artist's book created in remembrance of the air disaster when the Itavia Flight 870 crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, 241 small b/w images of items found in the sea wreckage are displayed and reproduced - much as Boltanski had done with items from dead people. However the recency of the event (which took place in 1980) and the tragedy makes this much more of a memorial event than other Boltanski works although the objective, bland recording of the items remains and hints slightly at the amoral effects of any death. There is a foreword in Italian by Beppe Sebaste. VG+. Hard to find....

11 Nov

Posted at 16:42h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Darmstadt: Darmstadter Echo, 11 November 2006
53 x 38cm, 12pp. A tabloid supplement on newspaper added to the 11 November 2006 edition of the German newspaper Darmstadter Echo. The supplement may be regarded as an artist's book as the choice of five large full sheet (including a double page centre-spread) of images were Boltanski's elsewhere the articles are all of the artist. issued to correspond with an exhibition at Mathikldenhohe in Darnstadt, the gallery layout and the various works exhibited are also featured over two pages. Folded for distribution as issued and else VG+.

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10 May

Posted at 20:02h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Editions MF, 2006
16 x 20cm, 72pp plus card covers. A book of poetry by Boltanski's nephew which was illustrated by seven b/w appropriated images of hands (manipulated such that the limbs are the only part of the photograph that is in light. Slight scuffs to front cover else VG.

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25 Jul

Posted at 13:48h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005
13.5 x 15.5cm, 46pp plus card covers and French folds with attached audio CD. Under the pseudonym Amicale des temoins, Christian Boltanski created his poetic-conceptual project Entendre Les Chiens (Listen to the Dogs) for the 50th Venice Biennale, 2003. During the exhibition, he emitted a recording of the sounds from an island of feral dogs--who are kept away from the city of Venice on the island Lazzarretto Vecchio - from a series of speakers hidden throughout Venice. Interview in German/French and English by Hans Ulrich Obrist. This example is one of a small number of signed books. VG+.
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18 Mar

Posted at 13:52h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Milano: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, 2005
12 x 17cm., 144pp with original printed boards. First edition of this artist's book with texts by Jean-Hubert Martin in English, French and Italian. The book consists of sixty-one stills chosen by the artist from TV news images broadcast on each September 6 (his birthday) from 1944 to 2004 (after 1973 the images are in colour). VG+.

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03 Mar

Posted at 14:25h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Février Editions, 2003
20.4 x 15cm, 12pp (self cover). Printed on very thick card. The book reproduces five double page images from the artist's very early 1969 film L'homme qui tousse - where the artist is disguised as a mannequin (with paper mache head and in rags) in a derelict room and is clearly unwell - vomiting and coughing.
The film can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJJwdD306c
The book has a custom shaped audio-CD with the soundtrack from the film. VG+.

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18 Jun

Posted at 22:39h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2002
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 50 8 years later. The pages of the tabloid do not register other than a general shape when looked at in isolation but when one opens up the pages and conjoins the sheets one can see an appropriated vintage b/w photograph of an unidentified man and a woman. Folded for storage else VG+. Somewhat scarce despite the large edition size of 10,000 copies.

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02 May

Posted at 19:49h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln: Walther Koenig, 2002
15 x 22cm, 20pp plus original boards. Ten sheets of card which has a number of disturbing images that have been overprinted with a silver ink that can (if desired) be rubbed off to see the photographs below.
This example is unscratched - and in mint condition. It is also one of a small number of copies that were signed on the back cover by Boltanski in black felt tipped pen.

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18 Nov

Posted at 10:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln/Dessau: Walter Konig/ Anhaltische Gemaldegalerie, 2001 25.5 x 20.5cm, 208pp plus boards. First edition of this artist's book with 101 images (collaged from xerox images by Boltanski) and texts in French, German and English from people who knew Boltanski printed opposite to the images on some pages. The pages with the images are printed on semi-opaque paper and backed by black blank sheets to cause a ghostly effect. As ever the images in the collages are taken from the artist's own collection of vintage photographs usually found in flea markets and in unidentified photo-albums.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Nov. 2001-Jan. 2002. VG+.

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15 Sep

Posted at 09:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, 2001
27 x 14.5 x 4.8cm, two part rubber stamped thick cardboard box content of:

WITNESS. 10.5 x 14.5cm, 32 2pp postcards bound as a book with wrap around cover. Each card in b/w displaying shots of the public installations "Witness" - enlarged eyes on posters around the city.
REVENIR. 42 x 29.8cm, 4pp artist's book (magazine) consisting of a group photograph of young men (possibly a sport club) and three enlarged faces from the photograph. Folded to fit the box.
UNTITLED (CHINESE PORTRAIT). 42 x 29.8cm, 4pp artist's book (magazine) consisting of a double sheet image of the enlarged eyes and two enlarged faces which appear to be Chinese faces. Folded to fit the box.
Two booklets - CHINESE PORTRAIT/ PORTRAIT CHINOIS- each 18 x 12.5c, 32pp. Text only in English and French with a short text by curator Magdalena Abakanowicz. The work WITNESS is briefly discussed with Boltanski placing the works around the city when he realised there was very little in the way of record of the Warsaw Ghetto.
UNTITLED - eight sheets - each 30 x 21cm, folded and bound together by a paper band - text in Polish. One sheet has some recent b/w portraits of the artists.

BOLTANSKI. 20 x 14.5cm, unpaginated (c. 48pp) printed on semi-opaque and opaque papers with some of the sheets fold outs. Minimal text with full colour images of the various works exhibited in the show. Hard printed boards.
An extensive exhibition catalogue with artist's booiks/publications included. VG++ condition and somewhat hard to find.

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