Vaduz: Kustmuseum Liechtenstein, 2009, 1994
20.5 x 14cm, 48pp plus typographic card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the major retrospective. Essay in English and German by Friedemann Malsch followed by 23 b/w images of installations and public works from the show. VG+.
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Liechtenstein: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2009
140 x 90cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with one shadow work below floating text. A huge poster used for external walls and bill boards. VG+.
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Two part black cardboard box with title label content of a 23 x 17cm, 160 piece card game where various photographs of the artist, author and portraits from the Louvre can be mixed up top and bottom to create new combinations of faces. The card game in this example is still in shrink wrap and unopened. JOINT WITH: LES HABITANTS DU LOUVRE Paris, Dilecta/Musée du Louvre, 2009 23 x 17.5cm, 120pp plus printed boards including 40 illustrations b/w. This first edition of the artist's book lists all of the artists found in the museum alphabetically within various rather contrived groupings. Boltanski has added 40 constructions where b/w reproductions of portraits of artists and employees of the museum have been cut up and recombined with half of the upper faces being attached to a different artist/employee's lower face - much like a children's card game. This is one of only 40 examples and X H.C. copies which are signed by both artist and Jacques Roubaud. VG++. ...
Berlin: Zeitung fur Kunst und Asthetik/Kewenig, 2008
46 x 30.5cm, 8pp. Exhibition catalogue in the form of supplement to Zeitung fur Kunst und Asthetik. Essay in English by Tessa Praun. Two full page images of works and a double centre page b/w photograph of the Japanese Island where the "archive of the heart" (recordings of many people's hearts volunteered from visitors to the museum exhibitions will be stored. VG+.
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Berlin/Miami: Kewenig Galerie, 2008
17.5 x 12.5cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for Boltanski's Coeur proiject where visitors "donated" a recording of their heartbeats to be archived on a Japanese island for posterity. This installation was part of Art Basel in Miami. VG+
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N.p. (Berlin), WRD/DLF, 2008 Homemade audio cd with a discussion taken from a 51 min radio programme about Boltanski. Speakers are Peter Moritz Pickshaus, and Nikolai von Koslowski and produced by Leslie Rosin. Homemade inkjet printed insert and handwritten title on the CD. Original jewel case....
Paris, Editions 591, 2008. 22.3 x 17 cm, two part metal box with printed label content two volumes of the catalogue raisonne of Boltanski's artist's books by Bob Calle along with an original appropriated photograph of two young men (possibly from the 1940s but exact date is unknown). This is one of only 36 examples (26 numbered copies and 10 HC examples) each signed and numbered by Boltanski (as is the photograph in the issued passpartou). VG+. ...
London: Phaidon, Date: 2008.
28.8 X 25.3cm. 160pp plus card covers and pictorial dj. Monograph with essays written by Didier Semin, Donald Kuspit and others in English - with 100 colour and 30 b/w illustrations. interview with Tamar Garb. VG+.
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Berlin: Kewenig Galerie, 2007
12.5 x 17.5cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo exhibition. VG+
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Paris (Malakoff): Maison des Arts - Centre d'art contemporain de Malakoff, 2007
21 x 15cm, a book consisting of ten images of colour images faces that have been cut into three sections each and spine bound (plus front and back covers). The splitting allows the viewer to recombine the 30 sections to create new combinations of faces. Boltanski has used this format (found in children's books more commonly) in other works including CHANCE at the Biennale of Venice. Malakoff is the area of Paris where the artist was born and also now lives.
Book was issued during the exhibition of the same title also in Malakoff. VG+ condition and surprisingly hard to find.
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NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery, 20017
12.5 x 17.8cm, 2pp typographic announcement card.
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Paris, Éditions 591, 2007
22 x 17cm, 128pp plus covers. The extensive and best to date catalogue raisonne of Boltanski's artist's books from 1969 to 2007.. Illustrated in b/w throughout. One of 500 with the text in English (there were also 500 in French).
This example is one of a small number of copies which are signed by Christian Boltanski on the title page. VG+.
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