In the 1960s, in search of a different creative methodology, Vera Molnár (b. 1924, Hungary; lives and works in Paris since 1947) invented an "imaginary machine" producing a set of conceptual procedures designed to generate images. By 1968, she became the French pioneer of computer-assisted art. Since then, her research work has continued unabated, culminating in the creation in recent months of a new protocol designed to produce an entirely generative art project executed by an algorithm. With this new creation, the pioneer of digital art made a foray into the virtual world of NFT, at nearly 100 years of age.
In recent months, and to mark her 100th birthday, Molnár has been drawing and imagining "a thousand" variations, a thousand ways of doing things, a thousand constructions and deconstructions, exploring the possibilities of crossing through a free play of lines and intersections. These hand-drawn sketches on small sheets of paper reflect her insatiable need to rediscover the joy felt every morning since the 1970s, when she recorded in her notebooks, or diaries (entrusted to the Centre Pompidou in 2022) the ideas that would later give rise to her creations.
This impressive group of works will resonate in the gallery's new space in Paris alongside a selection of drawings from the 1950s and 1970s.
