Christian Boltanski - Unoriginal Sins

TAKE ME I’M YOURS. 1995. THE DELUXE EDITION ONE OF 40 NUMBERED COPIES – MOST CARDS WITH ORIGINAL MODIFICATIONS OR SIGNED.

paul robertson — Fri, 01 Sep 1995 11:30:58 +0000

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1995

Artist designed postcards (36 in all, many individually modified or signed) in cardboard box from the Serpentine show of the same name curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

All of the cards - except Lawrence Weiner's - in each set of postcards (each 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp) are altered in some way by the artist concerned.

The cards consist of Wolfgang Tillmans: 3 postcards, one signed; Douglas Gordon: 3 postcards, all with the artist's bite; Franz West: 3 postcards, one signed; Maria Eichhorn: 3 postcards, all with applied 19p stamp; Hans-Peter Feldmann: 3 postcards with glued b/w xerox images on the back; Christian Boltanski - 3 postcards, one signed; Jef Geys: 3 postcards, one signed; Lawrence Weiner - 3 postcards; Gilbert & George: 3 postcards, all signed ("love from Gilbert & George"); Fabryce Hybert: 3 postcards, one with '34 - 35' written on the front; Christine Hill: 3 postcards, one signed and Carsten Holler - 3 postcards, all signed and dated.

Additional to the cards is the exhibition catalogue - 15 x 10.5cm, 20pp.

All fine in slightly scuffed box in somewhat crumpled in part original silver foil envelope. One of 40 numbered copies in pencil on the outer silver foil envelope. Rare.

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COEUR. 2019.

paul robertson — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:59:57 +0000

Paris: Centre Pompideau, 2019
7.8 x 5.3cm, metal and plastic and paper fridge magnet with an image of the artist's Coeur (Heart) - a lightbulB that turns off and on with a soundtrack from 2005. VG.

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BEWEGT. 2013. TABLOID BROADSIDE.

paul robertson — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:17:22 +0000

Wolfsburg: Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, 2013 
46 x 24cm, 8pp artist's publication in the form of a newspaper displaying four images - two appropriated images of girls and two installation shots in colour. Various public manifestations are also reproduced on the back page. The text includes a short version of an interview and essay in German. Folded for storage else VG+.

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LECON DES TENEBRES. 1986.

paul robertson — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:52:19 +0000

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986 
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp full colour announcement card with an image from the shadow play installation on the front and verso museum details. The title "LECON DES TENEBRES." translates to "LESSON OF DARKNESS' and the work with its strong lighting and deeply black shadows and grotesque images - which are expanded in size because of the projection on to a wall - is a little unsettling. 
Like other installations Boltanski allows the guts of the simple projection techniques to be seen - the lights are modern halogens, the cables are left exposed, the hand made puppets and shapes can be seen as well as their projections behind them. The artificiality is on show. 
One might muse as to Plato's allegory of the cave as an influence or a metaphor for unknowing - but we will do that elsewhere.
VG+.

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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1985.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:24:34 +0000

Dijon: Consortium à Dijon, 1985
73 x 123cmm full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster for the Boltanski solo exhibition with an installation view above museum text. One closed tear on left else VG.

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LES MODELES. 1979.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:14:17 +0000

Chalon Sur Saône: Maison De La Culture De Chalon Sur Saône, 1979

32,5 x 44,5cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition poster for the Boltanski exhibition. The image is one of the artist's shadow play works showing a jumping rabbit. VG+.

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LES ENFANTS JOUENT A L’AVENIR. 1981. COVER BY BOLTANSKI. AUTHOR WAS ARTIST’S MOTHER.

paul robertson — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:51:24 +0000

Paris: Editions Galilee, 1981
21.5 x 13.7cm, 174pp plus card covers. A novel by the French author which has an original collage on the front by Boltanski. Annie Lauran was the pseudonym of Myriam Boltanski - the artist's mother! - a fact that was hidden until 2015. VG+. Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 150.

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SCHULDZEIT (SIC). 1995.

paul robertson — Sat, 20 May 2023 13:24:10 +0000

Oldenburg: Oldenburgen Kunstverein und Carl von Ossietzky Universitat, 1995
20 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the installation of two works the first by Boltanski - Gymnasium Chases (based on a school photograph from Wien in 1931) and a second show based on found images - Private Waldschule Kaliski als insel der geborgenheit in Berlin 1932.
There are essays in German - Martin Sonnbend, Margret Stuffmann on Boltanski, and Hertha Lucas-Busemann on the private school which seems to have escaped the wrath of the Nazis during the war despite its Jewish links. Both articles are illustrated in b/w - Boltanski's with 8 images of faces and the original group photograph. An essay comparing the two exhibition is by Michael Daxner. VG+.

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galleria di fance mancini. artists rota.

paul robertson — Sun, 07 May 2023 12:15:43 +0000

Pesaro: Galleria di France Mancini, n.d. (1980s?)

10.5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic design listing the 60 artists represented by the gallery. Verso blank and unposted. Sadly someone has made a small sketch on the front in blue ink. Priced thus.

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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI INSERT FOR LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987.

paul robertson — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:02:46 +0000

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
30 x 21cm, 8pp (self cover). The printed insert for Le Lycee Chases exhibition catalogue that was only added for the exhibition in Dusseldorf that the show was taken too after Saint-Ettienne. Text in German with b/w images. VG+.

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HINTER VERSCHLOSSENEN TUREN. 1993.

paul robertson — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:07:48 +0000

Monchengladbach: Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, 1993
10.5 x 19cm, 2pp typographic announcement card. VG+

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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1991.

paul robertson — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:06:18 +0000

Frankfurt Am Main: Portikus, 1991
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a solo show of installation works. One such work in b/w on the front, verso gallery details. VG+.

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