02 Jul RELICS AND MONUMENTS. 2021. GALLERY HANDOUT FOR ARTIST’S LAST EVER SHOW.
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, 2021 21 x 15cm, 4pp. Exhibition handout for Boltanski's last ever exhibition - with texts in English. VG+....
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, 2021 21 x 15cm, 4pp. Exhibition handout for Boltanski's last ever exhibition - with texts in English. VG+....
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, 2021 21 x 15cm, 48pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for Boltanski's last ever exhibition - various large scale works relating to Les Suisse Morts and a show of artist's books. Many illustrated in colour with a text in French. Sadly Boltanski died on Bastille Day (July 14th) during the run of this exhibition. VG+....
Paris: Centre Pompideau, 2019
43.5 x 30.5cm, 8pp exhibition handout/exhibition catalogue for the major Paris exhibItion - this being the French language version. One large double page work reproduced across the middle pages and 40 works listed with small colour photographs as well as gallery plan. There is an interview with Bernard Blistene. Folded for storage else VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompideau, 2019
43.5 x 30.5cm, 8pp exhibition handout/exhibition catalogue for the major Paris exhibItion - this being the English language version. One large double page work reproduced across the middle pages and 40 works listed with small colour photographs as well as gallery plan. There is an interview in English with Bernard Blistene. Folded for storage else VG+.
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London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018
30 x 21cm, 2pp. Gallery handout for the show of video works and installations. Short text on the work and one installation view of Animitas - a film of a field of bells on metal stalks being sounded by the wind. VG+.
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London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Injet printout as issued - a list with small images of the seven works exhibited with descriptions. VG+.
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Milano: Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2018, 2001
15 x 10.4cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the large scale exhibition (one in a series) that were curated by Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist where visitors could take artworks away (much like Boltanski's Dispersion installations). texts in Enlgish and Italian, one b/w image of Boltanski's contribution - Dispersion but from the first of the shows in London in 1995. Another double page colour image of the Felix Gonzalez Torres"Untitled (revenge)". VG+.
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Tokyo: Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2016
30 x 19cm, 124pp plus card covers and printed pictorial dust-jacket. Exhibition catalogue for a major Japanese show with many colour images of the exhibition and in particular a major shadow play work and several videos of public installations. Printed on various paper stocks (some transparent) there are also interviews in Japanese and English. VG+.
This copy is signed in black ink on the inner dust-jacket by Boltanski.
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Paris: Monnaie de Paris, 2015 18 x 14cm, 36pp (self cover). The exhibition catalogue for the major exhibition curated by Boltanski and Olbrist which was based on their original show in the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2007. The exhibition was based on the idea that the artists would give works to the attendees for free to take away. Included works by Gilbert and George, Douglas Gordon, Boltanski, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lawrence Weiner, Jeremy Deller and others. B/w images of installations and texts in French and English. VG+. JOINT: TAKE ME Paris: Monnaie de Paris, 2015 15 x 11cm, 28pp (self cover). The children's version of the programme with one work on the cover. Texts in French and English. VG+. Price is for both together....
Paris: Dilecta Editions, 2015
30 x 22cm, 64pp plus card covers. Additionally there are seven 30 x 22cm, 1pp sheets of adhesive stickers with one work by each of the participating artists. The exhibition catalogue of a exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski at the Monnaie de Paris where all of the works were available for the visitors to take home (at least in part). Boltanski's contribution was a dispersion of second hand clothing in printed paper bags.
Other artists included James Lee Byars, Gilbert & George, Jeremy Deller, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Holler, Jonathan Horowitz, Gustav Metzger, Philippe Parreno, Yoko Ono and others.
The catalogue also acted as a sticker album - the colour stickers on the sheets being expected to be peeled off and places in the correct space in the book. This copy retains all of the stickers on the original sheets and is VG+.
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Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu,2015
15.5 x 11.5cm, outer card folder which opens to 6pp (unprinted). Tipped in such that they open up to 42 x 30cm, 1pp are posters on the left and right sides of the open sheets for the two works (Les Registres du Grand-Hornu and Apres), in the middle is a 15 x 10cm, 8pp with texts by Laurent Busine and Boltanski in French.
An unusually designed exhibition catalogue for the artist's Belgium show. VG+. Scarce.
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Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
35.5 x 23.5cm, 4pp museum handout for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. The handout is in French and English with both sections with the same images - seven small b/w installation views and an interview with Botlanski in both languages. VG+.
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Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
30 x 21cm, 8pp museum catalogue for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. Two large colour images of a Box installation and a huge clothing installation (a mountain of discarded clothes), several smaller colour images and one b/w image. VG+
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