Christian Boltanski - Unoriginal Sins

16 Aug RESERVES. 1987.

Posted at 13:09h in EPHEMERA

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.

Posted at 18:41h in PHOTOGRAPHS

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

Posted at 18:37h in PHOTOGRAPHS

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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09 Apr LE LYCEE CHASES. 1987. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 14:39h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Saint-Ettienne: La Mason de la Culture et de Communication de Saint-Ettiene, 1987
18 x 12cm, 42pp plus wrappers. Artist's book issued also as the catalogue for the solo exhibition. The book 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) - one each on a page. The final page of the book is an installation view showing the photographs displayed on the walls each with a lamp light above it.
We explain this work elsewhere. This example is signed in pencil on the title page. VG+.

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06 Apr DETECTIVE. 1987.

Posted at 18:21h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1987
5 x 5cm, colour transparency with a colour image of the Boltanski work Detective from 1987. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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10 Feb LOCUS SOLUS 1. 1987.

Posted at 17:25h in EPHEMERA

Wein: Galerie Herbert Winter, 1987
10.5 x 19cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for an installation by the artist - Locus Soius means a "unique place". The installation consisted of enlarged photographic portraits of unknown young people each illuminated with a single electrical lamp. VG+

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01 Oct MONUMENTS. LECONS DE TENEBRES. 1986.

Posted at 20:25h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Association Francaíse d`Action Artistiqu, 1986
19.5 x 13cm, 256pp plus wrappers. First edition of this artist's book published during the 42e Biennale de Venise. There are 110 b/w images of various faces taken from Boltanski's collection of found portraits and group shots which are presented without any background information at all although they were all exhibited in the associated exhibition in Venice in the usual manner of the artist (with lights and various trappings of religious monuments). There is a preface in French, English and Italian by Suzanne Pagé. Slight faint stains on front cover else VG+. Scarce.

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06 Aug MONUMENT: LES ENFANTS DE DIJON. 1986.

Posted at 18:23h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1986
5 x 5cm, colour transparency with a colour image of the Boltanski installation "Monument: Les Enfants de Dijon" from 1986 which was shown at the MCA in Chicago. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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22 Jul CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI DE SCHADUWEN. 1986.

Posted at 17:44h in EPHEMERA

Eindhoven: n.p. (Van Abbemuseum?), 1986
15 x 21cm, 2pp . Postcard issued with an image of the title shadowplay installation that was shown in the Van Abbemuseum and is in their permanent collection. VG+.

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09 Jul L’ANGE D’ALLIANCE. 1986.

Posted at 10:05h in POSTERS

N.p.: n.p., 1986
60 x 42cm, full colour offset lithographic poster showing the title artwork (after a photograph by Andre Morin). Folded else VG++.
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15 May LECON DE TENEBRES. 1986.

Posted at 17:04h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986
26.8 x 20cm,48pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue which includes the shadow play works "Les Ombres" and the installations "Les Monuments". Colour and b/w images of all and an interview in German with the artist (Demosthenes Davvestas). VG+.

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15 May LECON DES TENEBRES. 1986.

Posted at 08:25h in POSTERS

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986 59.5 x 42cm, black and yellow on white offset exhibition poster for a solo show of Boltanski's shadow works. Formerly folded else VG+. ...