Munich: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1992
22 x 15.5 x 3cm printed slipcase content of two volumes. Uniformly 22 x 15cm, 92pp and 132pp respectively plus boards and printed dustjacket.
The exhibition catalogue of a group show based on the artists' reaction to the 1926 discovery of the frozen corpse of a leopard at 19,000 feet on Kilimanjaro - a height above where one might not expect such an animal to be found. Hemingway mentions this find in his book "The snows of Kilimanjaro" it being so unusual. The exhibition was based on a number of prints commissioned from each artist by the gallery and issued in two portfolios an edition of 60 copies.
Boltanski's print in portfolio II is a collaged image of a Jewish school from Berlin 1939 - the original photograph overlaid with crumpled transparent paper to slightly mask the image and with packing tape at the corners before being rephotographed. The final print is printed on transparent paper which adds to the feeling of heritage or of coming from a past time - something that mimics some perceptions of the found body of the dead cat.
Other artists found in the two portfolios (volume I and volume II) were Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Enzo Cucchi, Juliao Sarmento, Mimmo Paladino, Axel Katz, James Brown, Nicholas Africano, A.R. Penck and Donald Baechler; Volume Two features Jannis Kounellis, Maichael Byron, Rebecca Horn, Martin Disler, A.&P. Poirier, Stephan Blankenhol, Jan Fabre, and Tony Cragg as well as Boltanski.
All of the prints are reproduced in colour in the first of the two volumes in this catalogue.
The second volume here displays the various works shown in the group exhibition - Boltanski's was "Les Images Honteuses 'El Caso'" displayed in 3 vitrines and on the wall in a be-curtained image. El Caso includes images of murders and other similar tragedies - the curtain being a sort of removable censorship forcing the viewer to decide whether to look or not.
Short essay text in Enlgish and German by Bernd Kulser. VG+ although a few marks on the slipcase.
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