Munchen: Gina Kehayoff Verlage, 1996
21 x 14cm, 64pp plus card covers. Artist's book consisting of 62 b/w photographic images of 31 people showing both younger and older selves opposite each other on each two pages. Minimal text in German. VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., 1996
11 x 13.7cm, digital output on gloss paper. A handmade postcard perhaps with a photoshopped collage of "faces" taken from Boltanski works. However this has been signed on the reverse in ink by Boltanski,
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Munchen: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1996 21 x 10.5, 4pp announcement card printed on transparent paper. The front of the card is an appropriated vintage image of two middle age people on a fairground slide. Gluck auf is apparently a regional greeting in parts of Germany (originally used by miners). VG+. ...
Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg, 1996 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for an exhibition of Boltanski's artist's books from between 1969 and 1995 from the collection of Guy Schraenen. One b/w page from a book reproduced on the front, verso museum details. VG+. ...
Paris: Yvon Lambert 1996
41 x 30.6cm, outer folder eight 40 x 30cm, 1pp b/w reproductions of appropriated photographs printed on semi-opaque paper and with eight transparent 40 x 30cm overlays with text printed in red.
The short titles associated with each image seem incongruous - an image of a young woman in swimming costume with a blanket over her head is noted as "La Belle Hotesse" (the Beautiful Hostess), a priest with a baby is denoted as Intense Souffrance (intense suffering). However the overlays can be moved around and placed over different images - and the titles given new context. Or more accurately the photographs are given new associations with any new text - which one may suggest is the point of the work: an anonymous image is read by a viewer using conscious and unconscious visual cues but when a language descriptor is added new associations are formed and the semantic context changed. Concessions are made.
This is one of only 50 signed and numbered examples on a colophon sheet. VG+
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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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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....
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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Stuttgart: Oktagon Verlag, 1995
17 x 13.5cm, 32pp which include 23 full colour 8.7 x 12.5cm "Kodak" photographs loosely tipped onto blank pages plus title page and colophon. Padded orange boards with foil stamped title. First edition of this artist's book which was designed to look like a family photographic album.
The photographs purport to be souvenirs of a family holiday at Berck-Plage in August 1975 and have the over bright colours found in the colour stock of the time - and an over saturated colour pallet that Boltanski has used in some of his mid-career photographic studies.
As with all of Boltanski's work one is left unsure if the images are genuinely from the artist's family records or found from some other vintage source?
This is one of 500 signed and numbered copies in pencil on the colophon by the artist. The series of Oktagon artist's books was edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist who has since worked several times with Boltanski including the series of "Take Me I'm yours" exhibitions from the late 90s. VG+ condition.
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Wien: Kunsthalle Wien, 1995
26.5 x 21cm, 120pp). Original card covers. Artist's book displaying 110 b/w full page images sourced from items stolen by the Nazis from Jews and now in the archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague, the objects claimed to be from a woman in Baden-Baden, clothing from Francois C and objects supposedly found i the sewers of Zurich (the latter three images can be found in earlier publications by Boltanski). None are labelled individually although the groupings are mentioned at the end of the book. Released during the exhibition "Menschlich" in the Kunsthalle Wien. VG+
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Wien: Kunsthalle Wien, 1995
28 x 24cm, 158pp. Original card covers. Artist's book listing all of the artists to take part in the Venice Biennale during the first 100 years including Boltanski. VG+
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Glasgow: CCA, 1995
15 x 15cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for an exhibition where the works were created from instructions of the artists without their personal intervention. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Other artists include Felix Gonzalez Torres, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Paul-Armand Gette, Mike Kelley, Rirkrit Tiravanija and others. VG+
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