Paris: Centre Pompideau, 2019
43.5 x 30.5cm, 8pp exhibition handout/exhibition catalogue for the major Paris exhibItion - this being the English language version. One large double page work reproduced across the middle pages and 40 works listed with small colour photographs as well as gallery plan. There is an interview in English with Bernard Blistene. Folded for storage else VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
24.5 x 33cm, thick printed card bound together with elastic band closures. A drawing board with two of the artist's installations on front and back - the lights spell out arrive and depart - an obvious reference to birth and death. This was an unlimited edition issued at the time of the major career surveying Paris exhibition. Initially "Faire son Temps" was envisaged as a major retrospective but the artist refused and insisted that new work be on display along with earlier material. This example is unwrapped in original shrink wrap plastic. VG++.
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Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2019
26.5 x 20cm, 280pp plus board with illustration of COEUR on the front. The major monograph and exhibition catalogue for the major career surveying Centre Pompidou exhibition with over 50 large scale installations and other works.
Initially "Faire son Temps" was envisaged as a major retrospective but the artist refused and insisted that new work be on display along with earlier material. Illustrated profusely throughout and a long interview between the artist and Bernard Blistine. This example is VG++.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
16.4 x 16.4cm, 4pp invitation card plus inserted 16.4 x 16.4cm, 1pp on transparent paper for the opening of the major "retrospective" (although new work was presented alongside old) and to the private reception/dinner in honour of the artist in the Chapelle des Beaux-arts. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
60 x 40cm, full colour lithographic exhibition poster with an image of Boltanski's public artwork where rocket-like sculptures allow air to rush through them to make low moaning sounds. The poster for the major exhibition which initially was meant to be a retrospective but included (after Boltanski's insistance) a good proportion of new work. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019
18.5 x 12cm, 94pp. Card covers. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue issued during the major Boltanski retrospective with c. 80 b/w images of found faces printed in such a manner as to resemble ghosts. Short texts in French by the artist. VG+.
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Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2019 41 x 35cm, two sided b/w tote bag in cotton with black handles. Issued at the artist's final large scale museum show with an image of the installation "Animitas" where bells were suspended on flexible iron rods and left for the wind to make them peal in situ. VG+. Unlimited edition....
Paris: Galerie Marian Goodman, 2018
19.5 x 25.5 x 4.5cm, two part cloth covered box content of a lenticular photograph taking two images from Saynètes comiques of 1974 - where the artist's performance in a black suit and hat consisted of him pretending to hang himself - only to show in a second photograph that the rope was fake. The title translates to "Death for a Laugh". When one moves the photograph the viewer can see one or the other image. From the 2000s onwards, Boltanski has increasingly used lenticular prints.
This is one of 200 signed and numbered copies on a label on the inside of the box lid. VG+.
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Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2018 24.8 x 28.6cm, 160pp plus pictorial boards. Major monograph with texts by by Meinrad Maria Grewenig, Peter Backes, Frank Krämer, Inge Plettenberg and full colour illustrations (most full page) of works throughout. VG+. ...
Paris: Editions Dilecta, 2018
30.5 x 25.5 3.5cm black clamshell box content of a 30 x 25cm, unpaginated artist's book displaying photographs of children from a group class image. A torn part of a silkscreen image of the original photograph tipped on to board. A photograph that has been overprinted in silver such that to see the image one has to scratch away the coating. And a certificate of authenticity numbered and signed by the artist tipped onto the lid of the box.
This is one of 170 signed and numbered copies (with 30 HC copies). VG+ with unscratched photograph.
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London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018
30 x 21cm, 2pp. Gallery handout for the show of video works and installations. Short text on the work and one installation view of Animitas - a film of a field of bells on metal stalks being sounded by the wind. VG+.
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London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Injet printout as issued - a list with small images of the seven works exhibited with descriptions. VG+.
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London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018
15 x 21cm, 8pp. Opens to display a small poster - 30 x 42cm, and minimal gallery information. The image is a video still from a film of a major installation in an unknown location where bomb-like sculptural shapes are hollow and allow the wind to pass through and make an eerie low moaning sound. There is a skeleton of what seems to be a whale nearby - and one is tempted to see this as a mournful sound art memorial to the dead animal. VG+.
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