12 Apr

Posted at 18:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Denville: Artforum (Volume XXVII No. 8), April 1989 26.8 x 26.8cm, unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus wrappers. A single number of the long running art journal which has an original page work by Boltanski (joint with Annnette Messager) on pages 126 - 129. Two b/w images of children with stuffed toys (chosen by Boltanski) are reflected in two colour images by Messager which use later examples of the toys to create new photographs. This is a very unusual joint work by the lovers. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 182.

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28 Jan

Posted at 18:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Basel. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1989
23 x 16cm. 62pp plus card covers. Artist's book released on the occasion of an exhibition in Switzerland. Twenty-three enlargements of faces from a group photograph of children celebrating the Fete de Pourim in 1939 in a Parisian Jewish School - looking at the faces (which take on the characteristics of spectres because of the fuzziness from the enlargement) one cannot tell the fates of any particular child although one might suspect many to have died in the killing camps of the Nazis. There is an interview in German between Boltanski and Jorg Zutter at the back of the book. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 180.

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12 Jan

Posted at 11:19h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1999
25 x 18 cm. 192pp plus card covers and French folds. A collective artist's book in hommage of the publisher Walther König with contributions by John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, ein loses vierseitiges Insert von Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, George Brecht, Günter Brus, Hanne Darboven, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiß, Isa Genzken, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Nam June Paik, ein lose einliegendes Walther König-Lesezeichen von Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Tomas Schmit, Schuldt, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz Erhard Walther. The cover was designed by Lawrence Weiner. Slightly grubby cover but else VG.
Boltanski has contributed an original pagework a photograph of a young boy holding a book in front of a bookshop which purports to be Konig at age 10 - something which we cannot verify or a typical Boltanski strategy of using a model to pretend to be the book dealer.

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26 May

Posted at 15:15h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1988
23.8 x 33.5cm, 68pp. Original thick boards. Artist's book (although also exhibition catalogue as it was published at the same time as the exhibition of the same name) with 22 b/w photographic illustrations of crime scenes (as usual without comment or legend) taken from the El Caso Detective magazine (plus tissue guards). Biography and essay in French and Spain by Daniel Soutif "Et in Boltanskia Ego". VG+.

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23 Apr

Posted at 09:00h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988
30 x 21cm, 120pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue which has elements of artist's book in that one section (16pp) is from Detective magazine (entitled DETECTIVE) and shows b/w images of people without captions - one cannot tell who is the victim and who is the murderer.
The rest of the catalogue shows works in colour and b/w of works and installations. A long essay by Lybb Gumpert is the Life and Death of Christian Boltanski is in English. VG+.



Flay Christian Boltanski Catalogue 1992, Page 170....

11 Feb

Posted at 17:30h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Dijon: Association pour la diffusion de l'art Contemporain, 1988
21 x 14cm, 24pp plus card covers and printed grey dustjacket. First edition of this artist's book which claims to reproduce nine sepia-toned portraits of Harly "found in a cigar box by the artist". Geo Harly was a pre-war entertainer it seems and a man who loved his mother. One of 300 numbered copies. VG+.

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29 Aug

Posted at 16:51h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 30 x 21cm, 62pp plus card covers and printed typographic dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which shows the photograph "Classe Terminale du Lycee Chases en 1931 Castelgasse Vienne" on the title page followed by enlargements of each of the faces of the children (not the teacher) - each on a page printed on semi-opaque paper to give a ghostly feel to the faces which are also out of focus due to the enlargement which doubles the affect. The final page of the book is an installation view showing the photographs displayed on the walls each with a lamp light above it. This is one of two artist books based on the same touring show - here in Germany and also in Saint-Ettienne. JOINT: Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 The printed 4pp insert with a further text in German and many b/w images of Boltanski's other work. VG+. ...

09 Apr

Posted at 14:39h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Saint-Ettienne: La Mason de la Culture et de Communication de Saint-Ettiene, 1987
18 x 12cm, 42pp plus wrappers. Artist's book issued also as the catalogue for the solo exhibition. The book shows the photograph "Classe Terminale du Lycee Chases en 1931 Castelgasse Vienne" on the title page followed by enlargements of each of the faces of the children (not the teacher) - one each on a page. The final page of the book is an installation view showing the photographs displayed on the walls each with a lamp light above it.
We explain this work elsewhere. This example is signed in pencil on the title page. VG+.

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01 Oct

Posted at 20:25h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Association Francaíse d`Action Artistiqu, 1986
19.5 x 13cm, 256pp plus wrappers. First edition of this artist's book published during the 42e Biennale de Venise. There are 110 b/w images of various faces taken from Boltanski's collection of found portraits and group shots which are presented without any background information at all although they were all exhibited in the associated exhibition in Venice in the usual manner of the artist (with lights and various trappings of religious monuments). There is a preface in French, English and Italian by Suzanne Pagé. Slight faint stains on front cover else VG+. Scarce.

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01 Oct

Posted at 08:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Maeght, 1985
37 x 27cm, 44 loose signatures in silkscreen outer folder on card. A single number of this artist's journal with original contributions by Kaminski, Mirsky, Réda, Barthelemy, Alberti, Holder, Léger, Gilbert and George, Macé, Mariscal and Cueff.
Boltanski also contributes a 4pp page work - a last day of school photograph of young children of which three faces are enlarged and placed within a drawn structure somewhat like a frame which infers each as a monument.
This is one of only 120 examples printed on velin which is signed and numbed by all of the artists (including Boltanski) on a colophon sheet. VG+. Scarce.

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04 Mar

Posted at 16:16h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Middelburg: De Vleeshal, 1982
10.5 x 15 cm card cover content of an 8pp accordion folded card which opens out to 10.5 x 60cm and displays a toy ship sailing during a cardboard cut-out heavy storm.
The images are taken from a Boltanski shadow play installation. The first edition of this delightful artist's book which was issued in a limited edition of only 250 copies of which only c.150 reached the market (personal research after meeting the publisher). Fine.
Ref: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 152.

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30 Jan

Posted at 15:59h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Editions Galilee, 1981
21.5 x 13.7cm, 174pp plus card covers. A novel by the French author which has an original collage on the front by Boltanski. Annie Lauran was the pseudonym of Myriam Boltanski - the artist's mother! - a fact that was hidden until 2015. VG+.
Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 150.

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