Vera Molnár
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Vera Molnár (born January 5, 1924 in Budapest ) is a French media artist of Hungarian origin. She is considered a pioneer of computer art .
Life and professional history
Vera Molnar studied art history and aesthetics at the Budapest Academy. During this time she was already particularly interested in abstract, geometric-constructive painting. After a scholarship stay in Rome , she went to Paris in 1947 , where she still lives today. In 1960 she was one of the founding members of the GRAV - Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel , and in 1967 she helped found the Art et Informatique group at the Paris Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies. Since 1968 she has concentrated on working on the computer. From 1974 to 1976 she developed the MolnArt program. From 1985 to 1990 Vera Molnar was a professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 2006 she co-founded the Open Structures Art Society (OSAS) in Budapest. Vera Molnàr lives and works in Paris.
Awards
- 2007: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2010: Molnár was accepted into the Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design.
- 2012: Order of Merit of the Legion of Honor .
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Vera Molnar can look back on numerous exhibitions in Europe, USA and Japan. Many of her works are in public and private collections, for example in the Marli Hoppe-Ritter collection in the Museum Ritter . In September 2005 she received the international price for digital art [ddaa] d.velop digital art award of the Digital Art Museum in Berlin, endowed with 20,000 euros .
Molnàr is considered a pioneer of digital art. Since 1968 she has been using computer programs as an artistic medium to develop formal systems and random number generators, which are the determining syntax underlying the forms, lines and color values of her graphic and painterly work. Her serial works are limited to a few forms and a reduced color palette that is varied to include numerous structures. Molnàr digitally analyzes the respective variation steps and determines them mathematically. The examination of the serial design principle led to the investigation of the design principles of the line. Because in particular the serial juxtaposition of similarly large shapes - such as the circle or the square - and formats generates linearity that gains meaning in terms of content. Linearity creates moments of movement through the sequence of shapes and extensions of the format.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
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Group exhibitions (selection)
- Chance as Strategy, Vasarely Museum Budapest, Hungary
- Think Line 2, Gallery [DAM], Berlin
- ERRE, variations labyrinthiques, Center Pompidou-Metz, France
- In focus: the 1950s to 1970s, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
- elles @ centrepompidou, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
literature
- Vera Molnar: When the square was still a square ..., a retrospective for her 80th birthday. For the exhibition in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen 2004, ISBN 3-936646-85-6 .
- Tobias Hoffmann (Ed.): Artist of the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt 01. Wienand, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-133-3 .
- Rolf Bernhard Heer: Molnár, Vera . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 90, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023256-1 , p. 253 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vera Molnár in the catalog of the German National Library
- Side of the artist
Individual evidence
- ^ Frieder Nake: Construction and Intuition: Creativity in Early Computer Art . In: Jon McCormack, Mark d'Inverno (Ed.): Computers and Creativity (English Edition) . Springer, 2012.
- ↑ MuDA, the Zurich Museum of Digital Art, is opening the solo exhibition by artist Vera Molnar, the 95-year-old pioneer of digital art, on August 31, 2019. In: Museum of Digital Art (Zurich) . March 27, 2019, accessed August 29, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Molnár, Vera |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |