Le Club Mickey

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‘Boltanski’s work is concerned with the nature of classification and inventory and how they relate to our need to organize history. He uses death as a metaphor for communicating these concerns, managing to transcend such associated categories as morbidity and resignation. This book features a series of newspaper photographs of adolescents, lodged somewhere between the ages of innocence and vulnerability. Boltanski’s cataloguing of these faces, as well as many of their membership numbers in the Mickey Mouse Club, reveals his own fascination for memory and how we construct the past.’ Ref.1
‘ Paris, 1958. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Mickey Mouse? Boltanski takes us by the hand and leads us back to M-I-C-K-E-Y via yearbook photos from Le Club.’ Ref.2

- Christian Boltanski ( 1944 Paris) est un artiste conceptuel français. Surtout connu pour ses installations photographiques, le peintre, sculpteur et réalisateur explore la vie, la mort et la mémoire, brouillant les frontières entre fiction et réalité. Son travail figure dans les collections permanentes du MoMA de New York, de la Tate de Londres et du Centre Georges Pompidou de Paris. Boltanski vit et travaille à Malakoff en France. Ref.4
Christian Boltanski (1944 Paris) is a French conceptual artist.
Best known for his photographic installations, the painter, sculptor and director explores life, death and memory, blurring the lines between fiction and reality. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA in New York, Tate in London and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris. Boltanski lives and works in Malakoff, France. Ref.4

-Imschoot Uitgevers In 1987 publishing house Imschoot (Ghent- Belgium) started an exceptional series of artists’ books made by international artists (Giovanni Anselmo, Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner, Hanne Darboven, Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Dan Graham, a.o.). Ref. 3
In addition to the regular softcover edition (500 to 1000 copies), a deluxe hardcover edition was also issued in a very limited edition, numbered and signed by the artists. The publishing house ceased its activities in 2006.
IM-series The IM-series is a collection of artists’ books, published on the occasion of the exhibition series “Affinités Sélectives” at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, organized by Bernard Marcadé.
The artists were given complete freedom to develop their project, not necessarily matching their exhibition. A constant format of 14,8 x 21 cms. was adopted.
The IM-series presents a choice of French, Italian, Belgian and American artists. Ref.1

References

• Ref. 1: Imschoot, uitgevers; Catalogus 1993-1994
• Ref. 2: Imschoot, uitgevers; Catalogus 2010
• Ref. 3 Johan Pas (Een essay door -), Het kunstenaarsboek in België: de voorzet tot een geschiedenis., Kunstenpunt
• Ref. 4: Artnet.fr

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