EXHIBITION CATALOGUES - Unoriginal Sins

15 May DERNIERES ANNEES. 1998.

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Paris: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de paris, 1998
26.5 x 21cm, 28pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue that has an important text "Le Voyage au Perou/The Journey to Peru" which is in French and English. The text gives insights into the artist's practice - how he likes to reinstall works which change depending on the situation, the role of objects as a means of referencing "humanity" in his installations, the role of memory and archiving in his work and the importance of religion in art, the issue of death and its denial by society, and the artist's "journey to Peru' which relatees to the chronological experiences and knowledge. Black and white images of installations and works throughout. A wonderful catalogue. VG+.

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12 Dec ADVENTO. 1995.

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Santiago de Compostela: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 1995
21 x 15cm, 6pp. Exhibition catalogue for a Spanish solo show mostly displaying the artists small "compositions" (dolls and abstract figurative shapes roughly made out of cheap materials) and his shadow works. One such work shown on the front of the catalogue and there is a short essay in Spanish by Gloria Moure and a biographical history of the artist. Two diecut binding holes (as issued). VG+.

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16 Nov TRAVAUX D’ELEVES. LA MEMOIRE COURTE. 1990s. NOT IN ANY BOLTANSKI REFERENCE.

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Lille/Steenvoorde: Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lille/College Sait-Exupery de Steenvoorde, n.d. (c. 1994) 27 x 21cm, 48pp on thick paper plus outer card covers with plastic spine binding. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of work by students of the College Sait-Exupery based on a year long programme of tuition by Jacques Mayeux, Pierre-Yves Bohm, Gerard Duchene as well as Christian Boltanski with each student's work reproduced with polarised images in b/w. The work is clearly heavily influenced by Boltanski's interest in archive and there is one b/w reproduced photograph of the artist in the school studio. A collective artist's book released during the exhibition this is in VG+ condition and is very rare and unknown in the Boltanski reference books....

07 Sep GYMNASIUM CHASES. 1995.

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Nurnberg; Germanisches National Museum, 1995
18.5 x 12.5cm, 72pp plus grey boards with polarised image of a school class. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book issued during the solo show in the German city where the title school class was photographed in 1931. The book then displays each of the faces from the group photograph one after another in close up - with the blurring tending to make the visages ghostly. Of course, one does not know the fate of these Jewish people - but it is very likely many were murdered by the Nazis. Essay in German. VG+.
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11 May LOST: NEW YORK PROJECTS. 1995.

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NYC: Public Art Fund, 1995
29.5 x 19cm, opens to 38 x 59cm. Single sheet printed black on light brown. The programme for Boltanski's huge intervention into New York City.- there were 6 different exhibition or installations including Lost Property in Grand Central Station, What They Remember in Eldridge Street Synagogue where children of Jewish immigrants were asked for memories of their childhood and their taped voices played at low volume in the building, Dispersion in the Church of the Intercession and Inventory in the New York Historical Society and others. The programme describes them all with black on brown images. Folded twice as issued. VG+. Not found in any catalogue raisonne.
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26 Feb SCHULdZEIT (sic). 1995.

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Oldenburg: Oldenburgen Kunstverein und Carl von Ossietzky Universitat, 1995
20 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the installation of two works the first by Boltanski - Gymnasium Chases (based on a school photograph from Wien in 1931) and a second show based on found images - Private Waldschule Kaliski als insel der geborgenheit in Berlin 1932.
There are essays in German - Martin Sonnbend, Margret Stuffmann on Boltanski, and Hertha Lucas-Busemann on the private school which seems to have escaped the wrath of the Nazis during the war despite its Jewish links. Both articles are illustrated in b/w - Boltanski's with 8 images of faces and the original group photograph. An essay comparing the two exhibition is by Michael Daxner. VG+.

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23 Oct MENSCHLICH. 1994. REPRINT IN GERMAN OF LESSONS OF DARKNESS. 1987.

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Aachen: Ludwig Forum fur International Kunst, 1994
29.5 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue which is heavily based on the catalogue from Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Lessons of Darkness 1988. The text is an extended biography illustrated chronologically by works in b/w but updated to 1994. VG+.

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30 Sep TEMBE HODINY. LECONS DE TENEBRES. 1994. WITH WOODEN BINDING.

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Prague: AFAA / Institut Français de Prague, 1994
30 x 22cm, 40pp plus card covers - the all bound clamped in a wooden rod! Exhibition catalogue for a major retrospective exhibition with many of the shadow play works on display along with other major installations. Colour and b/w images throughout, an essay in Czech and French by Gunter Metkem and an interview with the artist, VG+ condition and rather unusual format with the wooden stick.

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28 Aug RESERVE DES ENFANTS DE DUISBURG. INVENTAR DER DUISBURGER KINDER. 1994.

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Duisberg: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, 1994
21 x 14.8cm, 48pp plus typographic card covers. Exhibition catalogue prefaced by an essay by Bettina Ruhrberg - "Auf der suche nach der verlorenen kindheit" followed by a second by Cornelia Bruninghaus-Knubel "kunst als Interaktion".
What follows are several pages showing 60 small b/w photographs of objects donated to the exhibition by the children of Duisberg and Moers and followed by a long list (with birth dates) of 506 children who donated objects to the archive. The final image is of the items on racks in the museum as they were displayed. VG+.

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10 Jul CLOACA MAXIMA. 1994.

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Zurich: Museum der Stadentwasserung Zurich, 1994
24 x 17cm, outer printed folder content of 282pp (all unbound sheets - most 2pp but plates are 1pp). A group exhibition which was themed around the fact that the Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Each artist contributed a work to the exhibition and Boltanski displayed the Objets Trouves dans Les Egouts de Zurich (Objects Found in The Sewers of Zurich) and 31 objects are reproduced in b/w on the sheets here.
Other artists included in the show were Fischli/Weiss, Paul-Armand Gette, Gilbert & George. Hans Haacke, Carsten Holler, Ilya Kabakov, Allan Kaprow, Otto Muhl, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Slominiski, Nancy Spero amongst others. Texts in German, French and English. VG+ sheets in slightly worn folder....

04 Jul DU UND DEINE WELT GUTE NACH BUCHER. EN PASSANT 3. 1994.

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Berlin: En Passant, 1994
21 x 15cm, 6pp plus card covers. Exhibition handout for three simultaneous exhibitions by Boltanski - short essay by Michael Glasmeier in German with no illustrations, VG+.

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05 Dec GYMNASIUM CHASES. 1993.

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Frankfurt: Städtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1993
28 x 23cm, 6pp exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of the 23 enlarged faces of the school students found in an original source school photograph of the graduating class of 1931 from a Viennese high school for Jewish students. Each in larger detail takes on a ghostly appearance - and one is left wondering of the fate of these lost souls. Anonymous essay in German and four b/w images of faces and a reproduced image of the original school photograph. VG+.

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