EXHIBITION CATALOGUES - Unoriginal Sins

12 Jun LA GALERIE DES LOCATAIRES. 1989.

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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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31 May RESERVE. 1989.

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Warszawa: Galeria Foksal, 1989
21 x 15cm, 4pp. Exhibition catalogue with two colour images of the installation - second hand clothes left on the floor in the gallery spaces - a format used by the artist in a number of different venues. VG+.

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20 Nov THEATRES. 1988.

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La Rochelle: Maison de la culture La Rochelle., 1978
15 x 10.5cm, 40pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue consisting only of reproductions (four in colour) of mostly performance related works by the artist including his dalliance with dance as a set designer - Le Saut de l'ange from 1987 (with two images in b/w from the work and one painting/sketch), other works include his performance of the 70s and shadow plays. The sections are: Saynete Comiques, La Punition Injuste, La Baiser Cache, L'Anniversaire, Les Compositions, Les Ombres and the dance work.
The dance work can be seen here: https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/le-saut-de-lange-0
Rusted stitches else VG+. Very scarce.

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17 Oct CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1987.

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Amsterdam: Stedelik Museum, 1987
23 x 21.8cm, 12pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue for a solo show. Text in English and Dutch - being an interview with Demosthene Davvetas. Two works - one in b/w, the other in colour - are reproduced.
Wrappers are a bit scuffed and the cheap staples are slightly rusted else VG.

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29 Aug CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI INSERT FOR LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987.

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Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
30 x 21cm, 8pp (self cover). The printed insert for Le Lycee Chases exhibition catalogue that was only added for the exhibition in Dusseldorf that the show was taken too after Saint-Ettienne. Text in German with b/w images. VG+.

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15 May LECON DE TENEBRES. 1986.

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Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986
26.8 x 20cm,48pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue which includes the shadow play works "Les Ombres" and the installations "Les Monuments". Colour and b/w images of all and an interview in German with the artist (Demosthenes Davvestas). VG+.

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20 Mar CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. PEINDRE PHOTOGRAPHER. 1986.

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Nice: Galerie des Ponchettes, 1986
28 x 21.7cm, 36pp plus card covers and dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of shadow works (Les Ombres), Les Silhouettes (images of cheaply made cardboard dolls), and the comic performance works (Les Theatres). Images of works in b/w and colour. Essays in French by Jacques Ohhayon and Fumi Yosano. VG+.

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12 May CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1984. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

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Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1984
27 x 22.5cm, 92pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a large scale exhibition of Boltanski's photographic Compositions - starkly lit scenes where found models or brightly coloured hand-made puppets are displayed like dioramas. Additionally the artist creates roughly made puppets out of card board or household waste which are painted and the somewhat grotesque figurative works placed in darkness and highlighted by carefully placed lights.
Coloured images throughout and essays in German as well as an illustrated biography (which is similar to that found in other exhibition catalogues). Slight creases on the corner of the front cover but else VG+. This copy is signed in black felt tipped pen on the first half title page by Boltanski.

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01 Feb BOLTANSKI BOLTANSKI BOLTANSKI. 1984.

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Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984
27 x 23.5cm, 124pp. Original pictorial card covers. Monograph and exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective of Boltanski's work in the Centre Georges Pompidou. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with various essays by Bernard Blistene, Serge Lemoine and others and an interview with the artist. VG+.

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21 Nov POINT DE VUE IMAGES. FACONS DE PEINDRE. 1981.

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Chalon-sur-Saone, Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone, 1981
30 x 21cm, 56pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a photographic exhibition which alongside Boltanski included Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jamesd Collins, Jan DIbbets, Ger van Elk, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, John Hilliard, Urs Luthi, Annette Messager, Peter Roehr and Ed Ruscha. Unusually each artist's work is displayed in colour but shot from a distance which shows how it is exhibited on a wall,
Boltanski's work are two photographs from the Composition Grotesques series. An extract from an artist's interview is reprinted at the back of the catalogue (from 1977). VG+.

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10 May COMPOSITIONS. 1981.

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Paris: ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,1981
21 x 19.5cm, 48pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a major show of posed photographs by the artist (mostly colour) where models and brightly coloured objects (such as toys, pencils and drawing tools) are arranged to create highly saturated multiple images shown against black backgrounds. Essay by Dominique Viéville and an interview between Boltanksi and Suzanne Pagé (both in French).
This period of work broke temporarily with the artist's previous practice using found or restaged photographs and now utilised his greater technological ability to create much larger works in such formats.
VG+.

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21 Jun KUNST IN EUROPA NA’ 68…. 1980.

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Gent: Stad Gent, 1980 27.5 x 21cm, 204pp plus card covers. The cover has the title tipped on as a triangular printed label. The exhibition catalogue for a major look back at the artistic endeavours of the year 1968 which includes sections on Art & Languages, Beuys, Broodthaers, Brouwn, Buren, Victor Burgin, Cragg, the Red Crayola, Darboven, Dibbets, Dimitrijevic, Fabro, Feldmann, Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, Imi Knoebel, Yannis Kounellis, Long, Merz, Panamarenko, Paolini, Poirier, Schum van Elk, Vilmouth and Zorio as well as Boltanski. Boltanski's section includes 4 images of installations in b/w. Texts in German by Jan Hoet, Gemano Celant, Johannes Cladders, KJ Geirlandt, Sandy Nairne, Piet Vandaalen, Koenraad De Wolf, Tony Godfrey, Alexandra Beaton, F. Menna, and Albert Kuiper. Slight marks to the card covers else VG+. ...