Portrait chinois de C.B., 2006

These two numbered prints (470 x 350 mm., each) in a (dicolored)cardboard portfolio are part of the special edition of Boltanski; Time.The book has been signed and numbered by Christian BOLTANSKI. 114 illustrations of which 82 in color.“This moograph, compiled by Ralf Beil, was conceived and produced in close cooperation wih the artist. With philosophical, literary, and art-historical essays by Aleida Assmann, Samuel Beckett, Ralf Beil, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kaka, Tadeusz Kantor, Gabriel Ramin Schor, W.G. Sebald, Werner Spies, and Andrej Tarkovsky, as well as an interview with the artist, Time documents this unique exhibition (at the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt in 2006) and sounds the depths of this singular space as it echoes Boltanski’s art.” (text, printed on the flap of the dust jacket).

• Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006
• 4to (280 x 220 mm.) 156 pp
• Blue paper over boards, title embossed on the front cover and an illustrated dust jacket (the two prints have been reproduced: on the jacket)
• Special edition of 50 copies only
• Portfolio with 2 prints + a book together