Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984
27 x 23.5cm, 124pp. Original pictorial card covers. Monograph and exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective of Boltanski's work in the Centre Georges Pompidou. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with various essays by Bernard Blistene, Serge Lemoine and others and an interview with the artist. VG+.
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Paris: Georges Pompidou Centre, 1984
15 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card with a shadow sculpture in full colour on the front and verso museum details. This is the same design as the card for the Zurich show which took place one month later. VG+.
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17.7 x 12.7cm, b/w vintage silver gelatine print displaying one works hanging in the artist's studio - part of his Grotesques series where figurative sculpture were made from bits of wood and discarded items such as buttons and photographed. On the reverse is a label indicating the title and the date of the photograph. Photographer unknown.
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17.7 x 12.7cm, b/w vintage silver gelatine print displaying three works hanging in the artist's studio - part of his Grotesques series where figurative sculpture were made from bits of wood and discarded items such as buttons and photographed. On the reverse is a label indicating the title and the dates of the photographs (the two left and right being 1982 and the one in the centre (Composition enchantee) from 1982. Photographer unknown.
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12.7 x 17.7cm, b/w vintage silver gelatine print displaying four works hanging in the artist's studio - part of his Grotesques series where figurative sculpture were made from bits of wood and discarded items such as buttons and photographed. Some handwriting on reverse for use in reproduction including date and title. Photographer unknown.
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17.7 x 12.7cm, b/w vintage silver gelatine print displaying three works hanging in the artist's studio - part of his Grotesques series where figurative sculpture were made from bits of wood and rubbish and photographed. Label attached on the reverse with details. Photographer unknown.
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Middelburg: De Vleeshal, 1982
10.5 x 15 cm card cover content of an 8pp accordion folded card which opens out to 10.5 x 60cm and displays a toy ship sailing during a cardboard cut-out heavy storm.
The images are taken from a Boltanski shadow play installation. The first edition of this delightful artist's book which was issued in a limited edition of only 250 copies of which only c.150 reached the market (personal research after meeting the publisher). Fine.
Ref: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 152.
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Chalon-sur-Saone, Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone, 1981
30 x 21cm, 56pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a photographic exhibition which alongside Boltanski included Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jamesd Collins, Jan DIbbets, Ger van Elk, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, John Hilliard, Urs Luthi, Annette Messager, Peter Roehr and Ed Ruscha. Unusually each artist's work is displayed in colour but shot from a distance which shows how it is exhibited on a wall,
Boltanski's work are two photographs from the Composition Grotesques series. An extract from an artist's interview is reprinted at the back of the catalogue (from 1977). VG+.
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Geneva: Galerie Marika Malacorda, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show. VG+.
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Lyon: Le Nouveau Musee, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Colour photographic postcard showing a Boltanski installation of mobile small sculptures which were shown in highly dramatic lighting. This card has been signed by the artist on the front by scratching the surface of the card. Verso image details. VG+.
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Paris: ARC/Musee D'Art MOderne de La Ville de Paris, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed red on grey. VG+.
JOINT:
Printed Museum envelope hand addressed by Boltanski to M. Berg.
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Paris: ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,1981
21 x 19.5cm, 48pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a major show of posed photographs by the artist (mostly colour) where models and brightly coloured objects (such as toys, pencils and drawing tools) are arranged to create highly saturated multiple images shown against black backgrounds. Essay by Dominique Viéville and an interview between Boltanksi and Suzanne Pagé (both in French).
This period of work broke temporarily with the artist's previous practice using found or restaged photographs and now utilised his greater technological ability to create much larger works in such formats.
VG+.
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