Manfred Mohr: P-021-Band Structure
Artist(s):
Title:
- P-021-Band Structure
Exhibition:
- SIGGRAPH 1998: Touchware
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More artworks from SIGGRAPH 1998:
Creation Year:
- 1969-1970
Medium:
- Ink on paper
Size:
- 19.5" x 19.5"
Category:
Artist Statement:
In my artistic development, I did not have the typical constructivist background. I was an action painter and jazz musician. Through a development of consciousness, I detached myself from spontaneous expressions and turned in the mid 1960s, to a more systematic and, therefore, geometric expression. It was mainly the writings of the German philosopher Max Bense and the French composer Pierre Barbaud that radically changed my thinking, pointing to a rational construction of art.
Since 1973, I have been concentrating on fracturing the symmetry of a cube (including since 1978, n-dimensional hypercubes), using the structure of the cube as a “system” and “alphabet”. The disturbance or disintegration of symmetry is the basic generator of new constructions and relationships. The computer became a physical and intellectual extension in the process of creating my art. I write computer algorithms: rules that calculate and then generate the work, which could not be realized in any other way. It is not necessarily the system or the logic I want to present in my work, but the visual invention that results from it. My artistic goal is reached when a finished work can visually dissociate itself from its logical content and convincingly stand as an independent abstract entity.
Over the past two decades I have had many solo and group shows in galleries and museums worldwide. In 1994, the first comprehensive monograph on my work was published by Waser-Verlag (ISBN 3-908080-39-8) in Zuumlrich.
All Works by the Artist(s) in This Archive:
- Manfred Mohr
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P-370-P Divisibility II
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-306 Divisibility I
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-155 Cubic Limit
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-26 /2 Inversion Logique
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-417-E
[SIGGRAPH 1989] -
Half Planes
[SIGGRAPH 1998] -
P-021-Band Structure
[SIGGRAPH 1998] -
P-361-C
[SIGGRAPH 1985] -
P-370-G
[SIGGRAPH 1985] -
P-370-1
[SIGGRAPH 1985] -
P-370-J
[SIGGRAPH 1985] -
P-21 Band-Structures
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-52 Quark-Lines
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-161 Cubic Limit
[SIGGRAPH 1986] -
P-200 /2009/ 2015 /2016/ 2020 Cubic Lim...
[SIGGRAPH 1986]