https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:20:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/62-mitglieder-des-club-mikey-aus-dem-jahre-1955-in-monumente-1973/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=62-mitglieder-des-club-mikey-aus-dem-jahre-1955-in-monumente-1973 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/62-mitglieder-des-club-mikey-aus-dem-jahre-1955-in-monumente-1973/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 1973 08:06:01 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=30819 Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1973

31.5 x 22cm, b/w folder illustrated with images from the exhibition catalogue content of a further black on pink folder and 13 loose 30 x 21cm, 2pp sheets with contributions from each of the exhibiting artists - Enrico Baj, Michael Sandle, Edward Kieholz amongst others.

Boltanski has a 2pp original contribution - 9 appropriated b/w images of members of the Club Mickey (a Walt Disney fan club) taken from the larger installation of 62 photographs exhibited. A short explanatory text in German by the artist:

"I was eleven years old in 1955 and I was like these 62 children whose photo was featured in Club Mickey magazine that year. They had sent in the picture they thought best represented them: smiling and well coiffed, or with their favourite toy or animal. They had the same desires and interests as me.Today they must all be about my age, but I cannot find out what became of them. The image that has remained of them no longer corresponds to reality, and all these children's faces have disappeared, (....) similar and interchangeable faces have replaced them.

“Uncle Léon”, the club's president, a mythical figure, continues to write his letters to “dear little readers” and the children keep sending in their photos. Everything happens as if the memories were there...." (Our translation).

There is also a very short bibliography and exhibition history.

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