Köln: Museums Ludwig, 1993>BR>
30 x 21cm, 4pp gallery handout with cover reproduction of one of the post-war advert for the families of orphaned children and inside (along with a text in German by Gerard A. Goodrow) a reproduction of the original poster from the 1940s that Boltanski used to create his works. Three b/w images of the museum.
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NYC: New York Public Library, 1993
30 x 21cm, folded twice - single sheet of card which opens to a 60 x 42cm, full sheet poster displaying a page from the Inventory of Objects belonging to a Young Woman of Charleston. There is also an essay by Robert Rainwater. VG+.
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Munich: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1992
22 x 15.5 x 3cm printed slipcase content of two volumes. Uniformly 22 x 15cm, 92pp and 132pp respectively plus boards and printed dustjacket.
The exhibition catalogue of a group show based on the artists' reaction to the 1926 discovery of the frozen corpse of a leopard at 19,000 feet on Kilimanjaro - a height above where one might not expect such an animal to be found. Hemingway mentions this find in his book "The snows of Kilimanjaro" it being so unusual. The exhibition was based on a number of prints commissioned from each artist by the gallery and issued in two portfolios an edition of 60 copies.
Boltanski's print in portfolio II is a collaged image of a Jewish school from Berlin 1939 - the original photograph overlaid with crumpled transparent paper to slightly mask the image and with packing tape at the corners before being rephotographed. The final print is printed on transparent paper which adds to the feeling of heritage or of coming from a past time - something that mimics some perceptions of the found body of the dead cat.
Other artists found in the two portfolios (volume I and volume II) were Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Enzo Cucchi, Juliao Sarmento, Mimmo Paladino, Axel Katz, James Brown, Nicholas Africano, A.R. Penck and Donald Baechler; Volume Two features Jannis Kounellis, Maichael Byron, Rebecca Horn, Martin Disler, A.&P. Poirier, Stephan Blankenhol, Jan Fabre, and Tony Cragg as well as Boltanski.
All of the prints are reproduced in colour in the first of the two volumes in this catalogue.
The second volume here displays the various works shown in the group exhibition - Boltanski's was "Les Images Honteuses 'El Caso'" displayed in 3 vitrines and on the wall in a be-curtained image. El Caso includes images of murders and other similar tragedies - the curtain being a sort of removable censorship forcing the viewer to decide whether to look or not.
Short essay text in Enlgish and German by Bernd Kulser. VG+ although a few marks on the slipcase.
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Berlin: Berliner Kunstlerprogramme des DAAD fur das Heimatmsuem Berlin- Mitte, 1991
16.7 x 12cm, 32pp (self cover). Museum exhibition catalogue for the major project where Botlanski and a team discovered all that they could find about a "missing house" ie a house that was demolished by bombs in the second world war. The project was meant to be temporary but after the closing of the international exhibition that it was created for, the enthusiasm of the local population led Boltanski to leave the work in situ although part of the original exhibition in the museum had to be taken down.
The house at Grosse Hamberger Strasse 15/16 was also the subject of the ornate and complex artist's book La Maison Manquante 1992 (one of the most difficult to find books by the artist).
This brochure was written for visitors to the space and details the story of the occupants (including found photographs and documents) in an open and accessible manner. This example is in VG+ condition although an adhesive barcode is found on the inside back cover.
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Paris: Centre d'histoire de l'art contemporain, 1991
23 x 16.3cm, 188pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of works from the period 1968 - 1972 which was given as a class project to a number of curatorial students. The book has essays about and images from Boltanski, Bernard Borgeaud, Andre Cadere, Paul-Armand Gette, Jean Le Gac, Annette Message, Gina Pane, and Sarkis. Some wear around the spine but else VG. Scarce.
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Hamberg: Hamburger Kunstehall, 1991
24.5 x 19cm, 136pp. Original boards. Exhibition catalogue which is really a monograph on the artist's work with colour and b/w images throughout. Essays by Uwe M. Schneede, Von Gunter Metken and Serge Lemoine and an interview with the artist.
This copy is signed in green in by Boltanski on the half-title. VG+.
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Mito-Shi: ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, 1990BR>
29.5 x 21.5cm, 32pp plus printed French fold wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a Japanese show - text by Yugo Hasegawa in both English and Japanese. Twenty-one pages of colour and b/w plates including images of the artist installing the show. All in original printed slipcase. Scarce.
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Nagoya: ICA, 1990
30 x 21cm, 32pp plus printed card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for Boltanski's first one person show in Japan for 20 years (he had previously taken part in a film festival in 1970. Installing a mixture of older and new work in the entire museum - there are 16 installation views in colour here plus an essay in English and Japanese by Fumio Nanjo. VG+.
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Bordeaux: Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1990
28 x 22cm, 206pp plus boards and typographic dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for the seven artists (all of whom were very established practitioners by 1990).
Each artist has a section in the book dedicated to them and Boltanski has 10pp which has images of works not seen elsewhere before plus one fold out in full colour of an installation (here "Inventaire des objets appartenu a la jeune fille de Bordeaux").
VG but the dust jacket is slightly torn near the spine.
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Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1989
27 x 21cm, 40pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue - part in English, part in Hebrew - with 16 b/w images of installations and works. Interview with the artist which importantly discusses his feelings being back in Jerusalem, the politics and his choice to regard himself as Jewish from the age of four. VG+ although there is a numbered sticker on the spine which does not detract.
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Berlin: Galerie Jule Kewenig, 1989.
49 x 34.5cm, 8pp. Exhibition catalogue in the form of a large broadside with a text in German and English. by Remo Guidieri. Five large b/w images of works - Boltanski has an image from his comic performances on the back. VG+ although folded as issued by the gallery.
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Paris: Carte Segrete Editeur, 1989
27 x 21cm, 134pp plus printed blue card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a conceptual group show (which doesn't have a physical gallery to exhibit in) which includes documenation of early work from 1972 onwards from Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Andres Cadere, Annette Messager, Sarkis and others.
Boltanski's section includes images of work not shown elsewhere including Ombres - an installation in windows where shadows of interesting events could be seen from outside and French WIndow - a similar work elsewhere.
VG+ - very scarce.
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