Items Similar to El Caso
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9
Christian BoltanskiEl Caso1989
1989
$850
£644.20
€738.85
CA$1,187.61
A$1,295.62
CHF 687.17
MX$15,609.30
NOK 8,721.53
SEK 7,984.79
DKK 5,518.07
About the Item
Christian Boltanski, El Caso, Parkett., Zürich. 1989 in the collection of the MOMA Museum of Modern Art NYC
Miniature booklet with 17 photographs,
2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm)
ring bound with perspex covers and printed title
Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered (this one is not signed or numbered and might be an artist proof)
Guilty, Not Guilty. Themes central to Boltanski’s oeuvre find devastating expression in this tiny piece of pocket pornography containing images of brutal murder re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish detective magazine El Caso. [Ref. Bob Calle - Christian Boltanski Artist's Books 1969-2007, p.60].
Artists' book featuring 17 b/w photographs held together with two metal rings: "Luxury edition of a booklet with real glossy photographs, small enough to be hidden behind the hand... It pictures the bodies of victims of violent crime. By showing these photographs of half-naked corpses, bought nearer by close-up shots, the artist transforms the viewer into a voyeur who virtually becomes a sadistic partner in the crime." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991.
references
"Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991.
No. 69 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 184 - 185.
"Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 60.
Quote
“There is in the work of the artist something of the high priest and something of the charlatan. Boltanski transforms shards of nothing into art, bits of cardboard, lumps of sugar, old photos, but plays the game of showing us that his transformation is also mere illusion, that this art is also the nothing or next to nothing from which it has sprung.” Didier Semin Parkett No. 22, 1989
Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor and installation artist (although he refers to himself as a "painter", with regard to his concerns in all media). He is married to the artist Annette Messager, with whom he sometimes collaborates.
Christian Boltanski was born in occupied Paris in 1944 to a Jewish father and a Corsican mother and spent his early years hiding from the Nazis.Christian Boltanksi's artistic work is haunted by the problems of memory and loss and he often seeks to memorialize the anonymous and those who have disappeared.. He is known for a body of work that may be considered a disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, and personal histories. His death-obsessed creations have earned him an international reputation. He has spent his artistic life working with the most ephemeral of materials -- newspaper clippings, photographs, found snapshots, clothing, candles, light bulbs, old biscuit tins to examine and mark our transitory passing here on earth. Photographs are central to his work, and Boltanski explores the perceived truth of the photograph, how it is often used as a shield against death.
Self-taught, he began painting in 1958, but first came to public attention in the late 1960s with short avant-garde films and with the publication of notebooks in which he came to terms with his Jewish childhood. This focus on real and fictional evidence of his and other people's existence has remained central to his later art.
His works are included in collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri; the Mattress Factory, Pennsylvania; the Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Portugal; tate Museum, London England; Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israel.His work has been widely exhibited internationally, and he has had exhibitions at such museums as: ARC/ Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris; Centro Gallego de arte contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; the Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Villa Medici, Rome; Konsthalle, Malmo; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Musée de Grenoble; the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; the Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. He was a participant in Documenta in 1987 and in 1972, and the Venice Biennale in 1993 and 1986. His exhibitions in the United States have included Lessons of Darkness, which was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The New Museum, New York, the University Art Museum, Berkeley, as well as The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver and The Power Plant, Toronto.He has exhibited at numerous other venues as well, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; the Public Art Fund, and the New York Public Library, New York; and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston.
- Creator:Christian Boltanski (1944, French)
- Creation Year:1989
- Dimensions:Height: 1.97 in (5 cm)Width: 3.15 in (8 cm)Depth: 0.24 in (6 mm)
- Medium:
- Movement Style:
- Period:
- Condition:minor wear to cover.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38216839792
About the Seller
4.9
Platinum Seller
Premium sellers with a 4.7+ rating and 24-hour response times
Established in 1995
1stDibs seller since 2014
1,852 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: Surfside, FL
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View AllLarge Harry Bowers Vintage C Print Photograph From Ten Photographs Fashion Photo
By Harry Bowers
Located in Surfside, FL
HARRY BOWERS
T E N P H O T O G R A P H S
I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM
I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produc...
Category
1980s Arte Povera Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Lacre à S
By Marc Andre Cossette
Located in Surfside, FL
After completing an MA in Political Studies at Queen’s University, focusing on identity politics and immigration, Cossette served in several public policy roles with the federal gove...
Category
20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Large Harry Bowers Vintage C Print Photograph From Ten Photographs Fashion Photo
By Harry Bowers
Located in Surfside, FL
HARRY BOWERS
T E N P H O T O G R A P H S
I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM
I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produc...
Category
1980s Arte Povera Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints
Photographs
By Allen Ruppersberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Los Carpinteros Cuban Art Photograph Tuneles Populares Silver Gelatin Photo
By Los Carpinteros
Located in Surfside, FL
Los Carpinteros (Cuban, 1992-present).
Silver gelatin print photograph, large format.
From the series "Tuneles Populares" (The People's Tunnels)
1999
Edition 1/5
Provenance: Bliss Fi...
Category
1990s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Russian Samizdat Art Pioneers Conceptual Photo Photograph Gerlovin
Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Greetings, 1992
Photograph 10.25 h × 7.5 w in (26 × 19 cm), Frame 11 x 8 inches
Photo mounted to foamcore and framed behind acrylic
Hand signed and dated 'Rimma and Valeriy 1992';
...
Category
1990s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
You May Also Like
Historia, Memoria y Silencios (Silencios) Unopened IX
By Lorena Guillén Vaschetti
Located in New York, NY
Historia, Memoria y Silencios (Silencios) Unopened IX, 2009
Archival Ink on Cotton Paper
16h x 16w in
Edition of 5
Lorena Guillén Vaschetti was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1974 a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Archival Ink
Historia, Memoria y Silencios (Silencios) Unopened X
By Lorena Guillén Vaschetti
Located in New York, NY
Historia, Memoria y Silencios (Silencios) Unopened X, 2009
Archival Ink on Cotton Paper
16h x 16w in
1/5
Lorena Guillén Vaschetti was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1974 and current...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Archival Ink
Untitled (From "Organized Freedom, Final Edition" series)
By Esko Männikkö
Located in New York, NY
Esko Mannikko
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Nazareno #1. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Nazareno #1, 2002 by Celso José Castro Daza
From The series Buscando Papá.
One of a kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Untitled
Located in Roma, IT
Original black and white photograph of the 1989 with the portrait of the famous artist. Hand signed in the lower center by Jannis Kounellis. Photograph by Claudio Abate...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$21,544
Historia, Memoria y Silencios (Silencios) Unopened V
By Lorena Guillén Vaschetti
Located in New York, NY
Historia, Memoria y Silencios (Silencios) Unopened V, 2009
Archival Ink on Cotton Paper
16h x 16w in
Lorena Guillén Vaschetti was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1974 and currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. In 2000 Lorena received a degree in Architecture and Anthropology from University of Buenos Aires. Her work has been widely exhibited and published in the United States, South America, and Europe. Her first book, Historia, Memoria, y Silencios, Schilt 2011 was distinguished by PhotoEspana, 2012 and PDN as one of the Best Books of the Year. Her work is in the permanent museum collections of Brandts Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark, Museo de Bellas Artes of Rio de Janeiro, and the Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida.
Lorena approaches photography as an anthropologist, and the simplicity of her work allows the viewer to bring in their own stories, conclusions, and realities to the images. Using the idea of memory as a foundation for her work, Lorena's photographic series dissect how we are in the present as a result of what we remember from the past. In her Historia, Memoria, y Silencio series the artist captures elements and artifacts recovered from a box of thrown out family photographs. In 2009, Lorena's mother threw away all of the family slides to protect her daughter from their family history. Lorena was able to recover only one box out of the many that her mother discarded. She re-photographed the contents from her perspective, choosing to leave the slides that were wrapped in packages unopened. Bound in elastic bands, and concealed in film cannisters...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Archival Ink
