Barcelona: Fundació Espai Poblenou, 1994
21 x 15cm, 90pp plus typographic wrappers. An artist's book containing a list of calls made to the Barcelona police from 7 to 13 April 1994 organised by time and date and including the reason for the call (including deaths to someone reporting that snow is falling in a district). A number of the "daily reports" are translated into English at the back of the book. VG+.
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London: London Weekend TV, 1994
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Promotional card for the TV show presented by Melvyn Bragg looking at the work of Boltanski - on the front is a reproduction of Le Blaguer - a coloured photowork with an image of the performing artist in his suit. VG. Scarce.
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Napoli: Lucio Amelio, 1994
70 x 49.8cm, b/w lithographic offset poster with an image of a Boltanski wire sculpture. The artist's contribution to a group show created as an unlimited edition. VG+.Scarce.
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Paris: Flammarion, 1994
27 x 26cm, 192pp plus boards and colour pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this extensive monograph with over 200 illustrations of which 50 are in colour. Essays and interview by Lynn Gumpert. VG+.
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Munich/Stuttgart (St. Gallen): Octogan Verlag, 1993
18 x 12cm, 12pp plus card covers. Artist's book displaying six photographs of meals - each image being brightly coloured and fully saturated to make the posed images seem other-worldly and to emphasis their "fakery". The images resemble those used on restaurant menu boards.
This is one of 400 copies found in "World Soup" - this was Hans Ulrich Obrist's first ever curated exhibition and had major contributions by Hans Peter Feldmann, Roman Signer, Paul-Armand Gette, Fischli and Weiss, Richard Wentworth, C.O. Paeffgen, Frederic Bruly Bouabre. And each like Boltanski included an original publication or print to the catalogue which was published in only 400 copies.
Additionally there was a 30 x 21cm, 16pp pluys card covers general catalogue for the show which each artist provided a page contribution to - Bolanski showed two colour photographs of a kitchen cupboard but the second image has had a candle photo-manipulated into the image.
A rare publication - and this example has the Boltanski booklet signed on the first page in ink. All VG+ in like folder.
Reference: Calle Boltanski Artist's Books Page 77
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Munchen: Gunter Fruhtrunk Preis, 1993 9 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for Boltanski's award of the Gunter Fruhtrunk Prize for 1993. VG+....
Frankfurt: Städtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1993
28 x 23cm, 6pp exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of the 23 enlarged faces of the school students found in an original source school photograph of the graduating class of 1931 from a Viennese high school for Jewish students. Each in larger detail takes on a ghostly appearance - and one is left wondering of the fate of these lost souls. Anonymous essay in German and four b/w images of faces and a reproduced image of the original school photograph. VG+.
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Koln: Buchnadlung Konig, 1993
21 x 4.5cm, 2pp bookmark which also reproduces on the front 3 post-war adverts for "lost" children who is seeking family members. Boltanski requests that anyone who recognises him or her self should please get in touch. This is to promote the related artist's book of the same title. VG+
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Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1993
21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic design announcement leaflet explaining the exhibition where Boltanski notes he is about the same age as the children who were "lost" by their parents during the war and he asks if anyone in the photographs could contact him . VG+
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Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1993
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement leaflet which also reproduces on the front a post-war advert for a "lost" child who is seeking family members. Boltanski requests that anyone who recognises him or her self should please get in touch. This is one of a number of such leaflets released at the time of the exhibition and the related artist's book of the same title. VG+
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Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1993
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement leaflet which also reproduces on the front a post-war advert for a "lost" child who is seeking family members. Boltanski requests that anyone who recognises him or her self should please get in touch. This is one of a number of such leaflets released at the time of the exhibition and the related artist's book of the same title. VG+
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Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1993
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement leaflet which also reproduces on the front a post-war advert for a "lost" child who is seeking family members. Boltanski requests that anyone who recognises him or her self should please get in touch. This is one of a number of such leaflets released at the time of the exhibition and the related artist's book of the same title. VG+
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