24 Jun

Posted at 20:45h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu,2015
15.5 x 11.5cm, outer card folder which opens to 6pp (unprinted). Tipped in such that they open up to 42 x 30cm, 1pp are posters on the left and right sides of the open sheets for the two works (Les Registres du Grand-Hornu and Apres), in the middle is a 15 x 10cm, 8pp with texts by Laurent Busine and Boltanski in French.
An unusually designed exhibition catalogue for the artist's Belgium show. VG+. Scarce.

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15 Mar

Posted at 10:02h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
35.5 x 23.5cm, 4pp museum handout for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. The handout is in French and English with both sections with the same images - seven small b/w installation views and an interview with Botlanski in both languages. VG+.

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15 Mar

Posted at 09:57h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains, 2015
30 x 21cm, 8pp museum catalogue for the large retrospective which divided the works up into 7 sections - Les Pendus, Le Spectateur, Lew Boites, Les Vetements, La Lumiere, Les Archives du Coeur, Les Compteurs. Two large colour images of a Box installation and a huge clothing installation (a mountain of discarded clothes), several smaller colour images and one b/w image. VG+

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25 Sep

Posted at 16:15h in LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

Paris: s.p. (Boltanski), 2014
30 x 21cm, 1pp inkjet output - the certificate (nr 764064263) to Paul Robertson to allow online access to films made by Christian Boltanski. A short lived project of films made by the artist which were accessed online only by those holding the appropriate certificate. Presumably an attempt to use the internet as a new way of distributing art but such ventures often fail because art collector wish to own an object or permanent access to the site. As far as we know the access is no longer available online. VG.
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30 Jun

Posted at 20:36h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris. Editions Dilecta, 2014
32 x 22 x 5cm, two part heavy cardboard box with printed label content of:

a 17 x 24cm book which contains ten 13 x 18cm, full colour lenticular images tipped onto each page such that one can see two different images when the page is angled towards or away from the viewer.
a 54 x 36cm 4PP full colour artist's broadside folded to 27 x 36cm
a further 13 x 18cm lecticular photograph set into the lid of the box using photocorners
a signed and numbered 21 x 15cm, 1pp colophon sheet.

Deliuxe artist's book based on images found in the Wehrmacht magazine "Signal" that Boltanski bought at flea markets in Paris. Previously issued as a signed and numbered print, Boltanski here matches up images such that a war related photograph has a corresponding "normal" life image (often pretty girls enjoying themselves).
This is one of only 170 numbered and signed copies (with 20 HC copies also retained by the artist and 10 artist's proofs). VG+.

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08 Dec

Posted at 17:19h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Buenos Aires: Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 2013
25 x 19cm, 282pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue and monograph following the artist's major and large scale exhibition in the city. Full colour images throughout and essays in Portuguese and French by Diana Wechsler, Jean Herbert Martin and an interview with Anibal Jozami. One installation not seen elsewhere to our knowledge was in the Bibliotheque Nationale with 500 books suspended in the air above the room.
The photographic records of the events and the viewers are somewhat interesting and in some ways this is a photo-book of the exhibition and the visit. VG+.

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09 Sep

Posted at 15:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

NYC: Independent Curators International, 2013
25.4 x 20.3cm, 448 plus card covers. A massive collective artist's book based on the original project by Obrist and Boltanski in 1993. All of the works are instruction based - the reader being expected to create the work as explained by the artist.
Boltanski offers two works - Les Ecoliers and Instruction both from 1993.
Slight mark from previous price label on front cover. Internally on the first blank page Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist have written "do it" and signed under each phrase.

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02 Mar

Posted at 11:38h in EPHEMERA

Wolfsburg: Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, 2013
21 x 14.8cm, 4pp invitation card for the private view of a major museum exhibition by the artist. Inside is a reproduced photograph of the artist (as a young man) on the front which has been treated to seem "ghost-like".
The title "Bewegt" translates to "emotional". This significant and large scale installation consisted of found photographs of faces and family portraits (sometimes with more than one person) that were printed on transparent fabrics and hung from a moving gantry. VG+.
A video of the installation and an interview with the artist can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=RbIxk96HsTY&feature=emb_logo

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02 Mar

Posted at 11:31h in EPHEMERA

Wolfsburg: Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, 2013
21 x 10.4cm, 2pp announcement card for a museum show. Reproduced photograph of the artist (as a young man) on the front which has been treated to seem "ghost-like". The title "Bewegt" translates to "emotional". This significant and large scale installation consisted of found photographs of faces and family portraits (sometimes with more than one person) that were printed on transparent fabrics and hung from a moving gantry. VG+.

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06 Oct

Posted at 15:04h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Edition MF, 2012
23 x 18.5cm slipcase with embossed lettering. Content of 4 x 6pp folded 22.5 x 17cm sheets and one outer folder - 22 x 18.5cm, 4pp all on card. The poems are by Christian Boltanski’s nephew and the images (distorted b/w portraits of a woman) are by the uncle.
This is one of ONLY 50 copies which were signed and numbered by the writer and artist. Fine. Scarce.

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