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+....
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+. ...
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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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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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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Paris: Galerie Marian Goodman, 2005 21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a typographic design for a late solo show. VG+. ...
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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Berlin: Kewenig Galerie, 2005
12.5 x 17.5cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a joint exhibition with Ilya Kabakov. VG+
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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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Paris: Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, 2005.
21 x 10.4cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for the premier of the artist's film showing a compilation of newspaper broadcasts on the 6th September since the day of his birth in 1944. VG+.
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Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2004 21 x 10cm, 4pp museum handout for the permanent installation of a vitrine from 1970 with one image of the work and a text in German. VG+. ...
Paris: Février Editions, 2003
20.4 x 15cm, 12pp (self cover). Printed on very thick card. The book reproduces five double page images from the artist's very early 1969 film L'homme qui tousse - where the artist is disguised as a mannequin (with paper mache head and in rags) in a derelict room and is clearly unwell - vomiting and coughing.
The film can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJJwdD306c
The book has a custom shaped audio-CD with the soundtrack from the film. VG+.
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