12 Apr

Posted at 18:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Denville: Artforum (Volume XXVII No. 8), April 1989 26.8 x 26.8cm, unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus wrappers. A single number of the long running art journal which has an original page work by Boltanski (joint with Annnette Messager) on pages 126 - 129. Two b/w images of children with stuffed toys (chosen by Boltanski) are reflected in two colour images by Messager which use later examples of the toys to create new photographs. This is a very unusual joint work by the lovers. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 182.

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28 Jan

Posted at 18:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Basel. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1989
23 x 16cm. 62pp plus card covers. Artist's book released on the occasion of an exhibition in Switzerland. Twenty-three enlargements of faces from a group photograph of children celebrating the Fete de Pourim in 1939 in a Parisian Jewish School - looking at the faces (which take on the characteristics of spectres because of the fuzziness from the enlargement) one cannot tell the fates of any particular child although one might suspect many to have died in the killing camps of the Nazis. There is an interview in German between Boltanski and Jorg Zutter at the back of the book. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 180.

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18 Jan

Posted at 23:34h in EPHEMERA

Paris: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, 1989
10.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed in red and black for a solo gallery show. Slight bumping top right else VG. ...

12 Jan

Posted at 11:19h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1999
25 x 18 cm. 192pp plus card covers and French folds. A collective artist's book in hommage of the publisher Walther König with contributions by John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, ein loses vierseitiges Insert von Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, George Brecht, Günter Brus, Hanne Darboven, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiß, Isa Genzken, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Nam June Paik, ein lose einliegendes Walther König-Lesezeichen von Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Tomas Schmit, Schuldt, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz Erhard Walther. The cover was designed by Lawrence Weiner. Slightly grubby cover but else VG.
Boltanski has contributed an original pagework a photograph of a young boy holding a book in front of a bookshop which purports to be Konig at age 10 - something which we cannot verify or a typical Boltanski strategy of using a model to pretend to be the book dealer.

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06 Jan

Posted at 18:39h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1989
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Reliquary" from 1989. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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20 Nov

Posted at 14:11h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

La Rochelle: Maison de la culture La Rochelle., 1978
15 x 10.5cm, 40pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue consisting only of reproductions (four in colour) of mostly performance related works by the artist including his dalliance with dance as a set designer - Le Saut de l'ange from 1987 (with two images in b/w from the work and one painting/sketch), other works include his performance of the 70s and shadow plays. The sections are: Saynete Comiques, La Punition Injuste, La Baiser Cache, L'Anniversaire, Les Compositions, Les Ombres and the dance work.
The dance work can be seen here: https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/le-saut-de-lange-0
Rusted stitches else VG+. Very scarce.

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07 Sep

Posted at 17:10h in EPHEMERA

Rotterdam: Galerie Bebert, 19888
21 x 15cm, 4pp outer card content of two 21 x 15cm, 1pp red on white semi-opaque paper with details of opening and a potted biography of Boltanski in Dutch. VG+.

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06 Sep

Posted at 18:29h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1988
5 x 5cm, colour transparency with a colour image of the Boltanski installation "The Storehouse" from 1988. Handwritten legend on the plastic which mis-identifies the work as "The Great Caution" - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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06 Jul

Posted at 18:40h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1988
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Monument Canada" from 1988. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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26 May

Posted at 15:15h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1988
23.8 x 33.5cm, 68pp. Original thick boards. Artist's book (although also exhibition catalogue as it was published at the same time as the exhibition of the same name) with 22 b/w photographic illustrations of crime scenes (as usual without comment or legend) taken from the El Caso Detective magazine (plus tissue guards). Biography and essay in French and Spain by Daniel Soutif "Et in Boltanskia Ego". VG+.

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22 May

Posted at 21:25h in PHOTOGRAPHS

8 x 16cm, original b/w photograph of Christian Boltanski behind his Les Ombres Shadows installation at the Lessons in Darkness exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Mounted on brown card which is signed by the artist in blue ink underneath the image. Photographer unknown. On the reverse is a newspaper cutting with the legend from the original publication of the image in 1988 and a date in red ink impression. Unique.

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