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Galerie 8+4
Tribute to Kepes
Tribute to Kepes
Vera Molnar
Chance has always occupied a primordial place in Vera Molnar's art, leading her to continually experiment with combinations of forms, techniques and protocols. This tribute to Kepes, will not contradict it. György Kepes (1906-2001) is considered one of the first to have explored the possibilities of the photogram while collaborating with László Moholy-Nagi in Berlin in the 1920s. The cyanotypes Tribute to Kepes are jubilant ways for the artist to revisit, rework and reinterpret some of his earlier productions. Random tears, games with painter's frame keys, geometrical prints made with ordinary elements, etc. are all pretexts for infinite games, variations....
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The Vera Molnar first cyanotypes
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1924 Birth of Vera Gács in Budapest (Hungary) on January 5.
1942–47 Studied painting, art history, and aesthetics at the Budapest School of Fine Arts.
1947–48 Moves to Paris.
1957 Meeting of Soto and Morellet.
1960 Becomes a member of the Centre de recherche d’art visuel.
1967 Co-founder of the Art et informatique group at the Institut d’esthétique et des sciences de l’art in Paris.
1968 First works done with the use of a computer.
1969–76 Works at the computer center of the Paris-Sorbonne University, in Orsay; use of an IBM computer.
1973 Participation in the first international digital art exhibition in Paris.
1974 Development, with François Molnar, of the digital program MolnArt.
1980 Founding member of the Centre de recherche expérimentale et informatique des arts visuels, Paris-Sorbonne University.
1999 Solo exhibition at the Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine.
2001 Solo exhibition at the musée de Grenoble.
2006 Retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany.
2009 Participation in the group exhibition The Digital Pioneers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
2012 Retrospective exhibition at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and the Centre d’art contemporain in Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville.
2013 Participation in the group exhibition Dynamo (with Agam, Calder, Cruz-Diez, Kapoor, Le Parc, Morellet, Soto) at the Grand Palais, Paris.
2017 Participation in the group exhibition Thinking Machines, Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989 at MoMA, New York, United States.
2018 AWARE Outstanding Merit Award; solo exhibition at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.
2020-2021 Retrospective exhibition Pas froid aux yeux at the Espace de l'Art Concret in Mouans Sartoux and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes.
2022 Participation to the Venice Biennale
