06 May LOST. 1995.
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 ANNIE HANNAFORD. 1995. UNIQUE BOX FROM “THE WORK PEOPLE OF HALIFAX”.
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 MARY LISTER. 1995. UNIQUE BOX FROM “THE WORK PEOPLE OF HALIFAX”.
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 DISPERSAL. 1995. PLASTIC BAG.
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 UNTITLED (MILITARY MAN). 1995. DISTRIBUTED IN INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY.
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 SCHULdZEIT (sic). 1995.
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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10 Feb CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1995.
NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery, 1995
21 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement and invitation card. VG+.
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28 Nov CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1993.
Berlin: Kewenig, 1994
49 x 34.5cm, 8pp. Exhibition catalogue in the form of a tabloid newspaper. Five full sheet (one double) appropriated portrait images by the artist and a text in German and English by Jiri Svestka. Folded into sixths as issued and with original printed mailing band. VG+.
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17 Nov ARTEFACT. 1994. DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN COVER.
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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23 Oct MENSCHLICH. 1994. REPRINT IN GERMAN OF LESSONS OF DARKNESS. 1987.
Aachen: Ludwig Forum fur International Kunst, 1994
29.5 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue which is heavily based on the catalogue from Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Lessons of Darkness 1988. The text is an extended biography illustrated chronologically by works in b/w but updated to 1994. VG+.
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18 Oct LES HABITANTS DE MALMO. 1994. ONE OF ONLY 25 SIGNED EXAMPLES.
Malmo: Malmo Konsthall, 1993,br.
27 x 21.5cm, 1290pp plus original wrappers. Plus 27 x 21.5cm, 8pp printed insert. Artist's book which appropriated a telephone book from the Swedish city Malmo which Boltanksi placed a printed label on the front cover. Inside he circled an area of the district map using felt-tipped pen and additionally added an addendum of names and addresses and numbers as a separate insert which claims "You cannot call these inhabitants of Malmo, they died in 1993".
This book is one of only 25 signed copies (on the inside cover) aside from the unsigned edition of 400 issued during the exhibition "Christian Boltanski" in Malmo. The book is in original mailing box sent to M. Berg.
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30 Sep TEMBE HODINY. LECONS DE TENEBRES. 1994. WITH WOODEN BINDING.
Prague: AFAA / Institut Français de Prague, 1994
30 x 22cm, 40pp plus card covers - the all bound clamped in a wooden rod! Exhibition catalogue for a major retrospective exhibition with many of the shadow play works on display along with other major installations. Colour and b/w images throughout, an essay in Czech and French by Gunter Metkem and an interview with the artist, VG+ condition and rather unusual format with the wooden stick.
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