Book, 27.2 x 21.2 cm, 63 p, language: Polish, publisher: Lódz: Galeria 86, ISBN: 8390423715.
©image: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2025/237).
Literary synopsis
In 1962, Maria Stangret Kantor started writing "a novel without end", a literary piece of collage structure, consisting automatically mounted fragments of old handbooks, brochures, fictional stories, and her own irrelevant and trivial situations. She took writing as a kind of "vent" which she managed to depart from the seriousness of the so-called high art. She published certain fragments in her catalogues (eg Krzysztofory, 1965, Foksal, 1967), and in 2002 the work was published under the title The Diary of Grandfather.
Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice
A shared fascination in both automatic painting and writing.
Add to your list> Maria Stangret Kantor.
> Exhibition: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ARTWORK BECOMES A NOVEL?. M HKA, Antwerp, 07 December 2012 - 21 April 2013.
> Exhibition: THE BOOK LOVERS - A Project about Artist Novels. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 25 January 2013 - 09 March 2013.
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.