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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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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Halifax: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1995
29 x 24.5cm, 68pp plus boards and cloth spine. Artist's book which lists the names of all the workers at Dean Clough, Halifax between the years of 1877-1982 at which point the carpet factory failed and all were made redundant - hence "lost". There are 3,437 names in no particular order.
Near mint condition.

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25.5 x 20.5cm, b/w original silver gelatine photograph taken in Dean Clough, 1995 - the massive first installation of the WORK PEOPLE OF HALIFAX 1877-1982 - hundreds of tarnished metal boxes each with an attached label with a name of one of the past workers in the factory buildings that employed thousands of workers in carpet making. The factory closed in 1983.
Boltanski researched all of the names of workers that he could find amongst records from the factory and created a box for each person. The boxes are all empty but one cannot tell that from look alone and it is usually assumed that there are records or relics inside but there is not.
The work exists in various dimensions - there are literally thousands of boxes and it has been shown in a number of different installations since it was first shown in Yorkshire, UK.

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Leeds: The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 1995
31 x 21.5 white folder with printed label content of a 30 x 21cm, 1pp press release announcing Boltanski's new works at the Henry Moore Studio incluiding THE LOST WORKERS where local residents with relatives who formerly worked in the Dean Clough Carpet Factory were invited to bring personal belongings and memories to be stored in tin boxes as part of a permanent archive of the past employees. This work eventually became The Lost Workers of Halifax.
Additional to the press release is a photocopy - a 30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only) interview with Boltanski found in the LOST PORTFOLIO (1994) for use by journalists. Slight wear to folder and xerox interview pages else VG.

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Venice: S.N.E., Sans Lieu, 1995
27.5 x 24cm, 154pp plus typographic wrappers. Published during the artist's intervention in the Venice Biennale this artist's book lists all of the names of others officially participating in the Biennale since 1895 to 1995. Afterword (really just thanking people) by Jean Clair and a small b/w image of the main Pavilion building at the Gardini. VG+.

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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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