Jean-Pierre
BERTRAND
Aller à la Gare; Les Oiseaux Chantent dans l'Herbe;
Untitled
Artist books.
Set of three books, triptych.
Each unpaginated.
Wrappers, front cover opens on a b/w. offset photo.
11x18 cm; 18x11 cm; 11x18 cm.
Each title in an edition of 250 copies.
Each copy numbered and signed by the artist.
Self-published, n.p. (Paris, France), 1973.
Complete in 3 volumes.
Bibkiography:
Catherine Millet, Hélène Meisel et Philippe-Alain Michaud, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Marseille, Mettray Éditions, 2013
Jean-Pierre Bertrand from red to red, Marseille, Éditions P, coll. « Le Cahier du Box », 2016
Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs, the artist. Self-published, n.p. (Paris, France), 1973. Complete in 3 volumes.
Jean-Pierre BERTRAND:
Rreference exhibitions at the ARC, at the Center Pompidou, at Documenta in Cassel, at the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris…
He represented France at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999.
In 2019, the Center Pompidou devotes a second exhibition to him, Diamon’D [archive], on the occasion of the donation of all of his film and video production.
(COLLECTIVE). BERTRAND,
BOLTANSKI, BUREN, LAVIER, SARKIS:
La France à la Biennale

Artist recording.
- Vinyl sound disc (33 1/3 rpm) + 1 inserted booklet.
Disc: Ø 25 cm.
Condition: excellent.
- Booklet: (16)pp., including paper covers. Parallel text in French,
English and Protuguese by M. Nuridsany.
Stapled bound.
25.5 x 25.5
cm.
Loose, inside the record sleeve gatefold.
Condition: pale water stains to the upper right corner of the
front cover and first page of the booklet.
In gatefold sleeve, 26 x 26 cm.
Tracks on sound disc :
Side A :
Jean-Pierre
Bertrand:
Un camion freine - Voiture de police - La musique passe, 1985;
Christian
Boltanski:
Reconstitution de chansons qui ont été chantées
à Christian Boltanski entre 1944 et 1946.
Sarkis: Sérénades
opus 2 pour 12 kornemuses - à ma mémoire est ma
patrie, 1985;
Side B :
Daniel
Buren:
l'Indicible, 1985;
Jean-Pierre
Bertrand:
Un camion freine - Voiture de police - La musique passe, 1985.
Bertrand
Lavier:
Madrugada + Reine de musette, 1985;
Published by the Association Française d'Action Artistique (AFAA), Paris,
1985, on the occasion of the exhiiibition organized as part of the
18th Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1985.
Condition: wear at sleeve corners and on the back; record excellent.
References:
Catalogue: "d.i.s.c.o.t.h.è.q.u.e., expériences
sonores d'artistes", Maison du livre et du son, Villeurbanne,
1989, p. (33, 40, 42) / Broken Music, Berlin, DAAD, 1989, p. 137 /
British National Art Library, ref. NL.93.0829.