London: Phaidon, n.d. (2000)
Standard VHS cassette tape (53 minutes) with an English language film about the artist made for the British TV programme The South Bank Show (the title of the series giving away the London-centric bias of arts TV in Britain). INcludes an interview with the artist. Presented by Melvyn Bragg.
In original cardboard sleeve with printed label. Both VG+.
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Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2000.
25.5 x 11.4cm, 4pp announcement card for a series of new works where the portraits of unknown people were printed on fabrics and hung on wheeled hospital screens as well as other works shown in such a way that reflections from glass walls change the atmosphere of the gallery. Three works illustrated in b/w. VG+. Also a list of film showings by or about the artist. VG+.
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Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2000
21 x 15cm, 28pp (printed recto only) and typographic wrappers. Artist's book displaying 200 small b/w images of objects supposedly belonging to a woman from Ludwigshafen. This copy is signed in pencil on the inside cover by Boltanski. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000
0.8 x 14cm, unpaginated (c. 48pp). Original card covers. Artist's book listing in alphabetical order all of the works purchased by the Musee national d'Art moderne between 1977 and 1998. Boltanski had curated the exhibition "INVENTAIRE DU CABINET D'ART GRAPHIQUE" at the same museum and this book was released in an edition of 1,500 at that time. VG+.
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Kõln: Salon Verlag, 1999
17 x 12cm, 32pp. plus slightly oversize wrappers. There are 30 b/w portraits of young men and women in their teens placed on a graph-lined back ground and their dates of birth with a space for their later death dates. One of 1000 numbered copies.VG+.
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Beelitz, Kehayoff, 1999
11,5 x 17 x 3cm, two-part cardboard box with mounted title-sticker on lid content of a a folded text sheet with a colour drawing of the exhibition site and a text in English. Additionally there are 39, 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp colour post-cards. This was the exhibition catalogue for the exhibition shared between Boltanski, Ilya Kabakov and Jean Kalman. Each card shows an installation view of the works which were sited in a former sanatorium near Berlin. The text by Kabakov explains the background to the project. VG+.
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München. Gina Kehayoff. 2000
31 x 29.2cm, printed folder with ribbon content of 29 cardboard pages with mounted (photo corners) colour photographs of the various installations by the three artists in a former sanatorium outside Berlin. Additionally there is a large colour poster showing the layout of the project and a text in English by Ilya Kabakov.,br.
There is also a colophon sheet tipped onto the inside back of the folder signed and numbered by all three artists in pencil. One of of 69 deluxe copies. VG+.
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Kõln: Salon Verlag, 1999
17 x 12cm, 32pp. plus slightly oversize wrappers. There are 30 b/w portraits of young men and women in their teens placed on a graph-lined back ground and their dates of birth with a space for their later death dates. All the people were born in the mid 70s. One of 1,000 numbered copies. VG+.
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17 x 12cm, 1pp single lined sheet with an original photograph of a young man tipped on - the image that was used in the book. The back of the sheet is signed in pen by Boltanski. The sheet is in a glassine envelope.
This is one of the first 50 numbered copies of the book and the image used corresponds to the page of the same number - here 15 - hence each deluxe copy (up to number 30) has the original photograph used for the publication.
So Schnell translates to "So Fast" perhaps a reference to how quickly time passes, All in original printed slipcase.VG+. ...
Paris: Le Monde, 28 Mai 1999
46 x 32cm, 38pp. A single number of the important Parisian tabloid daily newspaper which has given a full page to Boltanski as part of a "carte blanche" art project. Boltanski has supplied a fiull page image on Page 33 of an appropriated vintage photograph of a young Jewish girl with a party hat and costume. The fete de Pourim is a commemoration of the saving of the Jewish people from Haman who had plotted a pogrom according to the Book of Esther in the Old Testiment. Often children would wear fancy dress which seems to be the story here. Apart from those visual clues - there is no other information about the image - a typical Boltanski strategy to disrupt narrative. VG+.
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N.p. (Germany): n.p., n.d. (c. 1998)
Six original xerox handouts from an unknown gallery show - here a 30 x 42cm, 1pp of 18 portraits from Lew Suisse Morts, 1991 (folded as issued), and four 30 x 21cm, 1pp handouts - an image from the journal New Eter 1972 (which they erroneously date as 1991) and an image from Diese Kinder Suchen Ihre Eltern, 1994, another from Sachlich, 1995, Lost (1994) and Menschlich also 1994.. All VG.
It is not clear where exactly these came from but on the back of the large sheet there is a handwritten note "Institut de Francais, 1998".
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Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1998 10 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a group show of works by Pierre Bismuth, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Douglas Gordon and Lawrence Weiner. VG+. ...
Bruxelles/Hannover/Paris: Editions Lebeer Hossmann/Christian Boltanski, 1998
21.7 x 15.6cm, 34pp plus wrappers. First edition of this artist's book with 32 b/w images of the artist again reproducing scenes from his childhood - mostly of his memories of playing games. The photographs were all taken by Annette Messager in 1972 but the legends below each image (In French, English and German) clearly states they are contemporary to the artist's childhood. One of 1.500 copies of a second edition printing of the book tweinty-six years after the original. This second edition is printed in a larger paper size than the first edition. VG+.
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