Hypertransformations , 1975/76, plotter drawings, open series, 4 variations
each +/- 20 x 20 cm

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(Dés)Ordres, 1974, open series, plotter drawing, 70 x 70 cm

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Interruptions, 1968/69, open series, 28.5 x 28.5 cm

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Une ligne, grecque après tremblement de terre, 1996/2004
print on canvas, size variable

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25 Carrés, open series, plotter drawing, 1989, +/- 44 x 44 cm

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Hommage à Dürer – 400 aiguilles, traversées par un fil
acrylic on untreated cotton cloth (plywood), cut needles, approx. 40 m thread (knotted once) . diptych, 1/2, 1989/2004, 84 x 84 cm

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144 trapezes, 1975. A series of 16 variations showing the progressive deformation of 144 trapeziums from a stage where the deformation is nearly invisible to the stage of the decompostion of the forms

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The first time I saw the work of VERA MOLNAR – represented by ONIRIS gallery – during Drawing Now (the artfair exclusively dedicated to contemporary drawings), I didn’t noticed how her “drawings” were created. In fact, VERA MOLNAR was among the first persons using the computer as a medium to create art: these drawings are part of the first computer graphics printed with a plotter.

VERA MOLNAR was born in Budapest but has lived and worked in Paris for many years. Trained as a traditional artist, she developped in 1959 (the first digitally produced pictures hat not yet existed)  her machine imaginaire and with this machine, she created pictures by means of selfinvented algorithmus. Since 1968, the computer is a central device of her artistic work.

To genuinely systematize my research series I initially used a technique which I called machine imaginaire. I imagined I had a computer. I designed a programme and then, step by step, I realized simple, limited series which were completed within, meaning they did not exclude a single possible combination of form. As soon as possible I replaced the imaginary computer, the makebelieve machine by a real one.

To avoid a false interpretation of my method I wish to emphasize that a large part of my work is designed and frequently carried out with the help of a computer; but whether these works have little value, if at all, is not the computer′s responsibility. This machine, as impressive as it may be, is after all merely a tool in the hand of the painter. I use the computer to combine forms, hoping that this tool will enable me to distance myself from what I have learned, from my cultural heritage and everything else that surrounds me; in brief, from the influences of civilization that define us.

My works are always created from the simplest of geometrical forms. This choice has its actual cause in my personal taste: I like the formal rigidity and the parsimony of geometry, I like the rational purity of mathematics. ′Nature can afford to be extravagant with everything, the artist must be totally efficient′, said PAUL KLEE; and I would agree…- from the statements of VERA MOLNAR

Purely fascinating! Make sure to check out her website http://www.veramolnar.com/