16 Jun

Posted at 13:32h in PHOTOGRAPHS

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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15 Jun

Posted at 20:38h in EPHEMERA

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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31 May

Posted at 09:23h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

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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11 May

Posted at 09:55h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

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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06 May

Posted at 21:03h in EPHEMERA

NYC: Public Art Fund, 1995
18 x 12.7cm, 4pp typographic announcement card for a city wide initiative where Boltanski opened four different major interventions. VG+.

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15 Apr

Posted at 14:16h in OBJECT MULTIPLES, UNIQUE WORKS

30 x 24 x 24cm, two part deliberately rusted tin box with pasted on label with the name "ANNIE HANNAFORD". An unique box from the large installation "The Work People of Halifax" first displayed in Yorkshire, UK in 1995. The installation consists of thousands of such boxes each with a label with a different name from the many employees of the Dean Clough carpet factory which closed in 1983. The size of the installation varies depending on the space allocated to it when exhibited.
This is one of the boxes - a gift from the artist. In VG+ condition.

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15 Apr

Posted at 14:03h in UNIQUE WORKS

30 x 24 x 24cm, two part deliberately rusted tin box with pasted on label with the name "MARY LISTER". An unique box from the large installation "The Work People of Halifax" first displayed in Yorkshire, UK in 1995. The installation consists of thousands of such boxes each with a label with a different name from the many employees of the Dean Clough carpet factory which closed in 1983. The size of the installation varies depending on the space allocated to it when exhibited.
This is one of the boxes - a gift from the artist. In VG+ condition.

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24 Mar

Posted at 17:34h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1995
46 x 41cm, printed plastic carrier bag. The first of a series of TAKE ME I'M YOURS exhibitions where the artworks could be taken away by visitors. Boltanski often created "Dispersions" - piles of second hand clothing that anyone was welcome to put into the specially printed bags (of which this is one example) and take home. Theoretically an unlimited edition but time limited. This example is in VG+ although folded for storage.

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17 Mar

Posted at 22:54h in PRINTS

London: Independent on Sunday, 1995
21 x 30cm, 2pp. B/w offset print with 48 b/w images of the same smiling military man (from perhaps the 50s) taken from a found roll of film. Verso is a black and orange information about the Take Me (I'm Yours) exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery which Boltanski initiated along with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The artist appeals on the leaflet for information about the man in the images as Boltanski owns the family album and other belongings which "he would like to return to the family".
This unlimited print was issued as part of the exhibition (there were 11 other such prints from the likes of Gilbert & George, Lawrence Weiner, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Franz West and others) and were distributed in the Independent on Sunday newspaper with a different print found in each newspaper. Scarce despite the large numbers printed. VG+.

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26 Feb

Posted at 14:40h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Oldenburg: Oldenburgen Kunstverein und Carl von Ossietzky Universitat, 1995
20 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the installation of two works the first by Boltanski - Gymnasium Chases (based on a school photograph from Wien in 1931) and a second show based on found images - Private Waldschule Kaliski als insel der geborgenheit in Berlin 1932.
There are essays in German - Martin Sonnbend, Margret Stuffmann on Boltanski, and Hertha Lucas-Busemann on the private school which seems to have escaped the wrath of the Nazis during the war despite its Jewish links. Both articles are illustrated in b/w - Boltanski's with 8 images of faces and the original group photograph. An essay comparing the two exhibition is by Michael Daxner. VG+.

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17 Nov

Posted at 08:33h in EPHEMERA

Aachen: Artefact, 1994
30 x 21cm, 16pp (self cover). A single number of the magazine of Ludwig Museum (17 November 1994) which has a one page article on Boltanski inside and the cover given over to one of the appropriated images from the post-War DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN poster. VG+.

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