Catalogue: Essais de reconstruction d'objets ayant appartenu a Christian Boltanski entre 1948 et 1954

This booklet accompanied Boltanski's first solo show at the Sonnabend gallery in Paris in 1971. As with the work 'Reconstitution de gestes', between 1970 and 1971 Boltanski tried to reconstruct, with plasticine, clothes, objects and the like which might have belonged to him in his childhood. This artist's book comes across like the parody of a scientific catalogue: listing of 45 reconstructions, with no commentary at all. [Bob Calle - Christian Boltanski Artist's Books 1969-2007, p.18].