The Novel That Writes Itself, 2014

Basel 2019
The Novel That Writes Itself

michèle didier

Prints & Multiples
30.2 x 24.8 (cm)
11.9 x 9.8 (inch)
Allen Ruppersberg "The Novel That Writes Itself" 468 printed pages 30.2 x 24.8 cm  Limited edition of 24 numbered and signed copies and 6 artist’s proofs Produced and published in 2014 by mfc-michèle didier ©2014 Allen Ruppersberg and mfc-michèle didier The Novel That Writes Itself is a finished whole of a novel in progress, initiated in 1978 by the artist. This work includes, gathered in a binder of more than 10 cm thick, the text The Torn-Apart Book by Jan Tumlir, in introduction, and a series of 460 single-sided perforated sheets. Page after page, we discover the posters produced by the artist at the Colby Poster Printing Company up until its closing down in 2013, the posters Colby had produced that the artist had collected, and several photographs of past installations of The Novel That Writes Itself which come to punctuate the narration.