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+. ...

15 Jan

Posted at 17:14h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

Bologna: Museuo per la Memoria di Ustica, 2007 XL blue on white cotton t-shirt which shows a drawing of the lights that Boltanski used to represent the dead victims of the 1980 crash of an Air Itavia airplane which killed 81 people. VG+....

15 Jan

Posted at 17:04h in EPHEMERA

Bologna: Museuo per la Memoria di Ustica, 2007 7cm dia. blue on white adhesive sticker which shows a drawing of the lights that Boltanski used to represent the dead victims of the 1980 crash of an Air Itavia airplane which killed 81 people. VG+. ...

11 Nov

Posted at 16:42h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Darmstadt: Darmstadter Echo, 11 November 2006
53 x 38cm, 12pp. A tabloid supplement on newspaper added to the 11 November 2006 edition of the German newspaper Darmstadter Echo. The supplement may be regarded as an artist's book as the choice of five large full sheet (including a double page centre-spread) of images were Boltanski's elsewhere the articles are all of the artist. issued to correspond with an exhibition at Mathikldenhohe in Darnstadt, the gallery layout and the various works exhibited are also featured over two pages. Folded for distribution as issued and else VG+.

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25 Jun

Posted at 21:24h in MONOGRAPHS

Ostfildern. Hatje Cantz. 2006
22.5 x 28.5cm, 156pp plus boards and pictorial dustjacket published in conjunction with the exhibition at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Edited by Ralf Beilwith essays by Aleida Assman, Samuel Becket, Rald Beil, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Tadeusz Kantor, Gabriel Ramin Schor, W. G. Sebald, Werner Spies, and Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as an interview with the artist. Illustrated in colour (86) and b/w throughout. Probably the best of the later monographs on the artist. VG+>

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10 May

Posted at 20:02h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Editions MF, 2006
16 x 20cm, 72pp plus card covers. A book of poetry by Boltanski's nephew which was illustrated by seven b/w appropriated images of hands (manipulated such that the limbs are the only part of the photograph that is in light. Slight scuffs to front cover else VG.

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25 Jul

Posted at 13:48h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005
13.5 x 15.5cm, 46pp plus card covers and French folds with attached audio CD. Under the pseudonym Amicale des temoins, Christian Boltanski created his poetic-conceptual project Entendre Les Chiens (Listen to the Dogs) for the 50th Venice Biennale, 2003. During the exhibition, he emitted a recording of the sounds from an island of feral dogs--who are kept away from the city of Venice on the island Lazzarretto Vecchio - from a series of speakers hidden throughout Venice. Interview in German/French and English by Hans Ulrich Obrist. This example is one of a small number of signed books. VG+.
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18 Mar

Posted at 13:52h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Milano: Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, 2005
12 x 17cm., 144pp with original printed boards. First edition of this artist's book with texts by Jean-Hubert Martin in English, French and Italian. The book consists of sixty-one stills chosen by the artist from TV news images broadcast on each September 6 (his birthday) from 1944 to 2004 (after 1973 the images are in colour). VG+.

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