Leigh Ledare, Mathieu Mercier, Annette Messager, Allen Ruppersberg, Carolee Schneemann, Martha Wilson - Art Basel - Art fairmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels -

ART BASEL 2019
June 13 - 16, 2019
Basel, Swiss

Our booth (E2) offers a selection of major pieces of artists whom art foremost concerns are about intimacy's or women's representation. Leigh Ledare, Mathieu Mercier, Annette Messager, Carolee Schneemann and Martha Wilson all have in common to have created artworks exploring the complexity of sexuality and its representation, sometimes revealing at the same time, in a more or less obvious manner, their own personal sexuality. Their works may reflect not only their own intimacy, but also viewer's most private sphere or own taboo. 
 
We present at Edition Spotlight the fascinating work Colby Sign by Allen Ruppersberg, published by mfc-michèle didier in 2014, a limited edition of 5 numbered and signed copies, each one different.
 
«Colby Posters were the ultimate graphic design ?ready-mades? and I think Marcel Duchamp would agree.» says Julia Luke of the Hammer Museum.
 
When the Colby Printing Company closed its doors, Allen Ruppersberg recovered the printer's original sign that was installed above the entrance of the factory. The work consists of a small size reproduction of the Colby sign, accompanied with 16 Colby posters on which the artist laminated photos of the second part of the sign, the letters P O S T E R P R I N T I N G CO. Each copy of the edition is unique, as in each series the Colby posters are different. Following this exceptional presentation, we will also present Ruppersberg's The Novel That Writes Itself in our booth: the piece 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.