Thóra Mason

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Dóra Maurer (born June 11, 1936 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian visual artist , filmmaker , exhibition organizer and representative of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde. She is a member of the Széchenyi Academy for Literature and Art (1995), a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts (2001) and a founding member of the Open Structures Art Society (OSAS, 2006).

biography

Dóra Maurer studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1956 to 1961. In 1967 she received a work scholarship in Vienna and then lived alternately in Vienna and Budapest for 30 years.

From 1975 to 1977 she led a “Creativity Visuality” course with Miklós Erdély at the Ganz Mávag cultural center in Budapest . Between 1987 and 1991 Maurer was visiting professor at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts. From 1990 to 2007 she was a lecturer at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts , from 2003 to 2007 professor there.

Her work has been supported by Hungarian and international grants, including the Széchenyi Professors Grant (1999–2002). In 2003 she received the Hungarian State Prize Kossuth , and in 2013 the Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe .

Artistic work

Dora Maurer uses several media and materials in her art: printmaking, painting, photography, experimental film. Central terms are movement, change and documentation or trace (leaving behind), connections between space and time, systematization, rule and the deviation from it.

Her artistic career began in the early 1960s with erasing cycles of organic forms, at the end of the decade she turned to conceptual art and seriality, shifting quantities of different materials into geometric structures, creating series of photos and experimental films that deal with the perception of change also the print graphics as an action and trace documentation. Her works do not lack a certain irony and humor. In the early 1970s, she developed the Displacements system , which is still valid today , and the series of quasi-pictures based on it , cut-out parts of the series of pictures as shaped picture bodies.

In 1982 she completely painted an old tower room in Buchberg Castle (Lower Austria), a room quasi a picture that became a key work: From this time onwards, her previously orthogonal pictorial forms contained spatial references and their coloring was accordingly sensitized. The rule reached a new point in the course of the 90s with the series Quod libet , and around the turn of the millennium the overlapping pictures were also created: the rectangular shapes appear on a spherical surface and have a floating character.

Furthermore, her work in art education and exhibition organization is noteworthy.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1975: Shifts , New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)
  • 1984: Munkák / Works , Museum Ernst, Budapest / Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (AT)
  • 1997: Quasi-Bilder und Bilder 1990–1997 , Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (H)
  • 1998: Works 1975–1997, Quadrat , Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop (D)
  • 2001: Parallel Oeuvres , Maurer – Gáyor, Museum of Art, Győr (H)
  • 2008: Concise Oeuvre , Museum Ludwig, Budapest (H)
  • 2010: Weightless , Museum of Perception, Graz (A)
  • Deploiement , Espace Topographie de l'Art, Paris (F)
  • 2011: 12th boarding school Biennale, Istanbul (TR)
  • 2013: Side by side, one above the other, one after the other , Galerie Hoffmann Friedberg / Ossenheim (D)
  • 2014: Snapshot Dóra Maurer , Museum Ritter , Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Waldenbuch (D)
  • 2019: Tate Modern , London (GB)

Films (selection)

  • Learned Perfunctory Movements, Variations 1-4 (1973)
  • Relative Swingings (1973/1975)
  • Timing (1973/1980)
  • Proportions (video, 1979)
  • Triolets for Three Objectives and Vocal Voice (1980)
  • Kalah (1980)
  • Seven Trials (1982)
  • Space Painting, Project Buchberg (1982/1983)
  • Inter Images 1. Retardation, 2. Streams of Balance, 3. Antizoetrope (1989)
  • Connections 1-6 (1992)

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  • Ludwig Múzeum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
  • Janus Pannonius Múzeum, Pécs (H)
  • Collection Vass, Veszprém (H)
  • Graphic collections, Albertina, Vienna
  • Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna MUMOK, Vienna
  • New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (A)
  • Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha (A)
  • New National Gallery, Berlin
  • Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
  • Museum of New Art Nuremberg
  • Museum in the Kulturspeicher , Peter C. Ruppert Collection , Würzburg
  • Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
  • Tate Gallery, London
  • Museum of Modern Art , New York
  • The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
  • National Gallery, MOCAK, Kraków
  • Muzeum Sztuki, Wrocław

Literature / sources (selection)

  • Groh, Klaus, in: Current Art in Eastern Europe , DuMont, Cologne 1972.
  • Mason, Dóra: Rézmetszet, rézkarc. Corvina Kiadó, Budapest 1976.
  • Neusüss, Floris M., in: The photogram in the art of the XX. Century , DuMont, Cologne 1990.
  • Ronte, Dieter: Principles Determinations , Beke, László: Objective Tenderness. In: Ronte – Beke: Munkák / Arbeit / Works 1970 - 1993. Monograph. Present Time Foundation, Budapest 1994.
  • Néray Katalin: The object of observation. Thóra Maurer's post-conceptual geometry. Catalog for: Maurer Dóra Munkák / Works 1990–1997, Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum / Ludwig Múzeum Budapest / Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat, Bottrop.
  • Honisch, Dieter: The Image as Transfer , in: Artists, Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , Issue 50, Issue 17, Munich 2000.
  • Mason, Dóra: Fényelvtan, a fotógramról. Magyar Fotográfiai Múzeum – Balassi Kiadó, 2001.
  • Gomringer, Eugen: The Shifts of DM, catalog Photoworks, Vintage Galéria, Budapest, 2007
  • Király Judit: Mathematical references in the art of Dóra Maurer , in: Maurer Dóra. Monograph. Ludwig Museum Budapest, 2008.
  • Peternák, Miklós: The Influence of Conceptual Art in Hungary 1988 , detail, in: Dóra Maurer, Traces 1970-1980. Dominik Art Projects, Kraków 2011.
  • Bogner, Dieter: Dóra Maurer , in: Catalog Snapshot Dóra Maurer , Museum Ritter, 2014.

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