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Vera Molnar:
“My work does not contain any elements of a symbolic, metaphysical or mystical kind, there is no message. Absolutely no message.” |
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Vera Molnar’s art is concerned with order and structures, for which she has reduced her artistic vocabulary to a few basic geometrical elements such as the circle, the line, and above all the square. Using this simple stock of forms and by means of symmetries and serial structures, she achieves a maximum of aesthetic effect in her paintings and works on paper. In this way she produces works of exceptional precision, such as the painting “3 Ronds, 3 Couleurs”, in which nine circles in variations of red and brown that all tangentially touch one another and the picture margin have been so evenly arranged that they give the visual impression of a square formation. Other compositions are based on the angular geometry of letters of the alphabet – as for instance in M for Malevich. “The letters”, according to Vera Molnar, “are placed on the picture surface in a nice soldierly arrangement, or in various rhythms, or by chance”. The regularity of the sequences allows these works to become pure ornament.
An unmistakable feature of the artist’s work is her great love of ordering systems, and her concentration on one shape and the sequences that develop from this. This mathematical, rational approach already led Vera Molnar in the 1960s to become one of the very first artists to make use of the computer and its powers of calculation for her systematic art. With the help of computer programmes that she developed herself, she gave a decisive push to her artistic researches into visual organisation. But time and again these analytical procedures are accompanied by the element of chance and her own artistic intuition. It is from this subtle balance of order and chance, of systems and play that Vera Molnar’s works derive their specific qualities.
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| Biography: |
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1924
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born in Budapest, has lived and worked since 1947 in France (Paris and Normandy)
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1942–47
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Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
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1947
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Rome fellowship
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1960
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Member of GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel)
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1968
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onwards work with computer and plotter
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1974–76
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developed the computer programme “Molnart”
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1980
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Member of the Centre de Recherche Experimentale et Informatique des Arts Visuels (CREIAV) at the Sorbonne, Paris
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1980–85
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Lecturer in visual art and art history at the Sorbonne, Paris
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2005
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d.velop digital art award (ddaa) 2005, Berlin
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