14 May

Posted at 20:30h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

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++. ...

15 Nov

Posted at 15:33h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

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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04 Nov

Posted at 17:30h in EPHEMERA

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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02 Oct

Posted at 19:25h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

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+. ...

27 Jul

Posted at 10:48h in MONOGRAPHS

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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15 Sep

Posted at 14:34h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

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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26 Aug

Posted at 09:56h in CATALOGUE RAISONNES

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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10 Jun

Posted at 08:58h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Ustica: Museo per la memoria di Ustica, n.d. (2007) 21 x 14cm, 40pp (mostly printed recto only) plus card covers. Artist's book created in remembrance of the air disaster when the Itavia Flight 870 crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, 241 small b/w images of items found in the sea wreckage are displayed and reproduced - much as Boltanski had done with items from dead people. However the recency of the event (which took place in 1980) and the tragedy makes this much more of a memorial event than other Boltanski works although the objective, bland recording of the items remains and hints slightly at the amoral effects of any death. There is a foreword in Italian by Beppe Sebaste. VG+. Hard to find....

15 Jan

Posted at 17:22h in EPHEMERA

Bologna: Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, 2007 21 x 10cm, 8pp (single folded sheet). The exhibition guide for Boltanski's emotive memorial for the 81 victims of the 1980 air crash of an Air Itavia flight. The installation is poignant - the reconstructed airplane is surrounded by 81 large light bulbs hanging from the ceiling - the lights glow and then dim in turn. The items and clothing found at the site are also situated in the installation but hidden from view in black boxes. Around the outside of the walk there are black mirrors from behind which are whispered voices - the recordings use men, women and children to have phrases such as "Mother will you hold my hand?" which are disturbing. This is more than art - it is raw, visceral and terrifying while solemn and respectful. The pamphlet displays three colour images of the installation and a text in Italian. VG+. ...

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