Christian Boltanski - Unoriginal Sins

23 Apr LESSONS OF DARKNESS. 1988. CONTAINS “DETECTIVE (FOR ANNETTE MESSAGER)”.

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Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988
30 x 21cm, 120pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue which has elements of artist's book in that one section (16pp) is from Detective magazine (entitled DETECTIVE) and shows b/w images of people without captions - one cannot tell who is the victim and who is the murderer.
The rest of the catalogue shows works in colour and b/w of works and installations. A long essay by Lybb Gumpert is the Life and Death of Christian Boltanski is in English. VG+.

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08 Apr CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI IN CHICAGO. 1988.

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Paris: Galeries Magazine, 1988
28.5 x 22cm, 146pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number of this art magazine which has a portrait of Boltanski on the cover and an 8pp article in French and English about his forthcoming major exhibition in Chicago (pointing out that few French artists are noticed in the USA). Colour images of works in progress in the artist's studio and of the artist. VG+.

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11 Feb GEO HARLY DANSEUR PAROLISTE. 1988.

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Dijon: Association pour la diffusion de l'art Contemporain, 1988
21 x 14cm, 24pp plus card covers and printed grey dustjacket. First edition of this artist's book which claims to reproduce nine sepia-toned portraits of Harly "found in a cigar box by the artist". Geo Harly was a pre-war entertainer it seems and a man who loved his mother. One of 300 numbered copies. VG+.

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17 Oct CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1987.

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Amsterdam: Stedelik Museum, 1987
23 x 21.8cm, 12pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue for a solo show. Text in English and Dutch - being an interview with Demosthene Davvetas. Two works - one in b/w, the other in colour - are reproduced.
Wrappers are a bit scuffed and the cheap staples are slightly rusted else VG.

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07 Oct OUVRES INEDITES. 1987.

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Marseille: Galerie Roger Pailhas, 1987 15 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for a solo show in France. VG+....

29 Aug BOLTANKSI. 1987.

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Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
84 x 59.5cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski installation Lecons de Tenebres Les Ombres, Paris 1986. VG+.

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29 Aug CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI INSERT FOR LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987.

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Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
30 x 21cm, 8pp (self cover). The printed insert for Le Lycee Chases exhibition catalogue that was only added for the exhibition in Dusseldorf that the show was taken too after Saint-Ettienne. Text in German with b/w images. VG+.

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29 Aug LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987. WITH PRINTED INSERT.

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Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 30 x 21cm, 62pp plus card covers and printed typographic dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which shows the photograph "Classe Terminale du Lycee Chases en 1931 Castelgasse Vienne" on the title page followed by enlargements of each of the faces of the children (not the teacher) - each on a page printed on semi-opaque paper to give a ghostly feel to the faces which are also out of focus due to the enlargement which doubles the affect. The final page of the book is an installation view showing the photographs displayed on the walls each with a lamp light above it. This is one of two artist books based on the same touring show - here in Germany and also in Saint-Ettienne. JOINT: Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 The printed 4pp insert with a further text in German and many b/w images of Boltanski's other work. VG+. ...

29 Aug LE LYCESS CHASES. 1987.

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Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1987 21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement card - internally one work (Les Reserves, 1987) in colour and museum text. VG+....

16 Aug RESERVES. 1987.

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NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery, n.d. (1987)
21 x 10cm, 4pp. Announcement brochure for a solo show with a large scale installation of second hand clothing folded and stacked and placed under spotlights. The work hints at the removal and theft of the Jewish cloths of the murdered victims of the Nazis but as usual for the artist the anonymity is important - the lack of information allows projection of ideas onto the work. There is a colour image of the installation on the inside of the leaflet. VG+.

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06 Jul AUTEL DES LYCEE CHASES. 1987.

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NYC: n.p., 1987
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Alter to the Chases Highschool" from 1988. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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06 May LES ARCHIVES. 1987

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NYC: n.p., 1987
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Les Archives" from 1987. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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