Christian Boltanski : Lost
  • exhibition catalogue
  • non-standard binding
  • offset-printed
  • loose leaves
  • other special feature[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 25.3 x 37.8 cm. (file folder)
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0907660495

Christian Boltanski : Lost

Christian Boltanski, John Hutchinson, Paul Bradley, Charles Esche, Nicola White

Christian Boltanski : Lost

description

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a series of exhibitions. "Dead Swiss," held at CCA, Scotland, April 12 - June 12, 1994; "Lost Property," held at Tramway Visual Arts, Glasgow, April 30 - June 12, 1994; "Lost Property," held at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, July - August 1994; and "Lost Workers," held at Henry Moore Sculpture Studio, Halifax, England, which opened May 17, 1994. Catalogue takes the form of a file folder envelope containing postcards of black-and-white installation views of the exhibitions; four loose leaf bundles with printed bands containing approximately twenty "Lost Worker" clock-in cards each and printed individually with the worker's name; five multi-color folders which contain the following: a twenty-eight page list of Swiss people who died in Canton of Valais, Switzerland in 1991 ("Liste des Suisses Morts dan le Canton du Valais en 1991"); a four page single fold text on the work of Boltanski titled "Death and the Duck-Rabbit," by John Hutchinson; a sixteen page interview between Boltanski and Paul Bradley, Charles Esche and Nicola White; an eight page list of lost property at Tramway, Glasgow, recorded between March 1993 and January 1994; four heavy weight loose leaf perforated pages featuring images of the lost property within each area of perforation and stamped with the date of loss on the verso; a picture of the Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art; and a loose leaf acknowledgements page.The envelope itself has a printed colophon and table of contents on interior of flap which is embossed with the title.

references

"Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 84.
Glasgow / Glasgow / Dublin, Scotland / Scotland / Ireland: Center for Contemporary Art / Tramway / The Douglas Hyde Gallery,
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$350.00
Condition:  Good. Folder is moderately worn.Elastic on folder has lost some elasticity. 2.8 cm. of soiling to recto of folder and 2.7 cm. of staining to folder from blue ink.Does not include the picture of the Mackintosh Library. Contents are clean and unmarked.
[Object # 6919]