EPHEMERA - Unoriginal Sins

16 Aug RESERVES. 1987.

Posted at 13:09h in EPHEMERA

NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery, n.d. (1987)
21 x 10cm, 4pp. Announcement brochure for a solo show with a large scale installation of second hand clothing folded and stacked and placed under spotlights. The work hints at the removal and theft of the Jewish cloths of the murdered victims of the Nazis but as usual for the artist the anonymity is important - the lack of information allows projection of ideas onto the work. There is a colour image of the installation on the inside of the leaflet. VG+.

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10 Feb LOCUS SOLUS 1. 1987.

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Wein: Galerie Herbert Winter, 1987
10.5 x 19cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for an installation by the artist - Locus Soius means a "unique place". The installation consisted of enlarged photographic portraits of unknown young people each illuminated with a single electrical lamp. VG+

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22 Jul CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI DE SCHADUWEN. 1986.

Posted at 17:44h in EPHEMERA

Eindhoven: n.p. (Van Abbemuseum?), 1986
15 x 21cm, 2pp . Postcard issued with an image of the title shadowplay installation that was shown in the Van Abbemuseum and is in their permanent collection. VG+.

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14 May LECON DES TENEBRES. 1986.

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Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp full colour announcement card with an image from the shadow play installation on the front and verso museum details. The title "LECON DES TENEBRES." translates to "LESSON OF DARKNESS' and the work with its strong lighting and deeply black shadows and grotesque images - which are expanded in size because of the projection on to a wall - is a little unsettling.
Like other installations Boltanski allows the guts of the simple projection techniques to be seen - the lights are modern halogens, the cables are left exposed, the hand made puppets and shapes can be seen as well as their projections behind them. The artificiality is on show.
One might muse as to Plato's allegory of the cave as an influence or a metaphor for unknowing - but we will do that elsewhere. VG+.

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07 Sep CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1984.

Posted at 11:03h in EPHEMERA

Rotterdam: Galerie 't Venster, 1984
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed yellow and black with a shadow play image on the front and verso gallery details. VG+.

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21 Aug COMPOSITIONS – FARBFOTOGRAFIEN. 1984.

Posted at 11:06h in EPHEMERA

Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein, 1984
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp B/W announcement card with one of Boltanski's roughly made small dolls on the front and verso museum details for an exhibition of such works and colour photographs. The "doll" can be seen to be made somewhat cheaply out of corrugated cardboard and metal rivets. VG+.

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10 Apr SOYNETES COMIQUES. MA MERE CHANTE JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE (1974). 1984.

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Paris: Centre Georges Pomidou, 1984
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard with one of Boltanski's comic self portraits that he began to create in the 70s (this one from 1974), The original is a photograph that Boltanski would colour with paint/oil stick. Fine.

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23 Mar CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. (ZURICH). 1984.

Posted at 22:09h in EPHEMERA

Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1984
15 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card with a shadow sculpture in full colour on the front and verso museum details in German - the same design as the announcement card for the Paris show in the same year. VG+....

01 Feb CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. (PARIS) 1984.

Posted at 14:28h in EPHEMERA

Paris: Georges Pompidou Centre, 1984
15 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card with a shadow sculpture in full colour on the front and verso museum details. This is the same design as the card for the Zurich show which took place one month later. VG+.

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17 Nov COMPOSITIONS INITIATIQUES. 1981.

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Geneva: Galerie Marika Malacorda, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show. VG+.

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21 May COMPOSITIONS. 1981. WITH HAND ADDRESSED ENVELOPE.

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Paris: ARC/Musee D'Art MOderne de La Ville de Paris, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed red on grey. VG+.
JOINT:
Printed Museum envelope hand addressed by Boltanski to M. Berg.

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10 Mar CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1979.

Posted at 14:12h in EPHEMERA

NYC: Sonnabend 1979
10,5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed yellow and black. A mailed copy which was sent to Seriaal Verlag in Copenhagen by Boltanski (hand addressed) but it was mis-delivered and there is a a lot of post office markings, franks, writing and attached label on the back - but despite that it is still VG+.

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