Christian Boltanski | "El Caso", 1989 | (for Parkett 22)
Themes central to the artist’s oeuvre are expressed in this pocket-sized booklet containing images of brutal murders re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish magazine “El Caso” (published from the 1950s-80s).
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Parkett Vol. 22
Quote from Parkett
“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
"El Caso", 1989 (for Parkett 22)
Booklet with 17 photographs,
2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm),
Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered on last page of booklet.
Sold Out. For updates on availability, please inquire by joining our waiting list
Themes central to the artist’s oeuvre are expressed in this pocket-sized booklet containing images of brutal murders re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish magazine “El Caso” (published from the 1950s-80s).
Read a Parkett Text on Christian Boltanski
Parkett Vol. 22
Quote from Parkett
“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
"El Caso", 1989 (for Parkett 22)
Booklet with 17 photographs,
2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm),
Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered on last page of booklet.
Sold Out. For updates on availability, please inquire by joining our waiting list
Themes central to the artist’s oeuvre are expressed in this pocket-sized booklet containing images of brutal murders re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish magazine “El Caso” (published from the 1950s-80s).
Read a Parkett Text on Christian Boltanski
Parkett Vol. 22
Quote from Parkett
“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
"El Caso", 1989 (for Parkett 22)
Booklet with 17 photographs,
2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm),
Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered on last page of booklet.
Sold Out. For updates on availability, please inquire by joining our waiting list
Artist Document
Christian Boltanski's large room installation "El Caso" (1988) from which he assembled 17 photographs for his small, palm-size booklet edition for Parkett No. 22 (exhibition view from Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, 2016).
Parkett Text
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Parkett Cover
Christian Boltanski and Jeff Wall’s cover for Parkett Vol. 22
