David Cunningham Alphabet, 2010
Specifications
Slipcase in grey cardboard, 29,5 x 15,9 x 15,5 cm
Contains 26 volumes, 15 x 15 cm, each 104 pages 2704 pages in total
Printed on Phoenix Motion Xantur 150g
Cover bound in Phoenix Motion Xantur 250g
Algorithm design and implementation by Daniel Jackson, 2007
Alphabet on spine by Mina Obata Robinson
Printed by Arte-Print
Bound by Renaître
Production
Limited edition of 50 copies and 10 artist's proofs
Certificates numbered and signed by the artist
Produced and published by mfc-michèle didier in 2010
©2010 David Cunningham et mfc-michèle didier
NB: Tous droits réservés. Aucune partie de cette édition ne peut être reproduite sous quelque forme ou par quelque moyen que ce soit sans la permission écrite de l'artiste et de l'éditeur.
Alphabet consists of 26 volumes, exactly the number of letters in the Roman alphabet. Each volume proposes 97 distinct combinations of 26 letters, producing a total of 2522 different alphabetical series. These letters succeed one another in small writing in a horizontal line that scores the middle of every page. Alphabet's sequences defy all alphabetical understanding and, now and again, thanks to the reader's contribution, a random fragment offers a recognizable word. The only series in alphabetical order runs on the spine of each volume, laboriously, yet playfully hand-written by a young four-year old girl.