“As soon as the painter uses a computer, the emerging image ceases to be a chaos of unknown or undefined shapes and colors. Instead, it becomes a matrix composed of thousands of discrete, discontinuous, and quantified points. Without the help of the computer, he would never have been able to so faithfully materialize an image which previously only existed in his imagination”. Vera Molnar (Budapest, Hungary, 1924) is a computer graphics pioneer looking into the generative potentialities of computers and reflecting on the difference between the informative flow and the concreteness of visual data. In the series of artworks exhibited here, she designed infinite variations elaborated by a mathematical model stemming from the visual suggestiveness of Sainte Victoire Mountain lines.
Vera Molnar