Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès
Couper, Coller, Construire
Vera Molnar , Hungary
Vera Molnar, Carré tronqué scindé en 2, 2001, tracé collage, 25x25 cm, courtesy Galerie Berthet Aittouares
Since 1947, Vera Molnár has tirelessly drawn, painted, sculpted, programmed, photographed, conceptualized and spatialized an impressive number of works.
Initially thought of as laboratory research, her first works are elaborated in a constructivist state of mind, then enriched by knowledge on the psychology of form and the laws of vision, become interrogations, plastic questioning of optics.
Cybernetician then computer scientist, she sets up in the 60s a mode of production that she calls imaginary machine before being the first artist in France (1968) to use a computer linked to a plotter to produce digital drawings. Until the middle of the 90's, she will carry out a systematic exploration of formal families whose mutations she stages, privileging most often the resumption and the seriality as axes of development.
Finally, until today, a last creative phase in Vera Molnár's work paradoxically combines mastery and freedom, know-how and the quest for surprise.
For the first time in the history of the exhibition of the artist's works, the BA Gallery highlights and proposes a genealogy of a type of construction fundamental to Vera Molnár's entire career and underlying each of the above-mentioned plastic modes: collage.
Rendez-Vous
Thursday 19 May 2022 at 6:00 pm
Opening – Vera Molnar : Découper, Coller, Construire
75006 Paris, France 14 Rue de Seine
75006 Paris, France 0143265309 www.galerie-ba.com
The gallery
The Berthet-Aittouarès gallery was founded by Michele Aittourès in 1986. Her daughter Odile Aittouarès joins her in the year 2000, she is an art historian and author of Friesz’s “catalogue raisoné”, but also Co-founder of the Photo Saint-Germain festival and of the JeudiDesBeauxArts association.
There collaboration began with the exhibition « Chine-Occident où l’aventure du signe » on the work of Zao Wou-Ki, Mark Tobay, Jean Degottex, Henri Michaux and Shan Sa. The gallery has two spaces in the heart of Paris the first one is 29 Rue de Seine the second 14 rue de Seine former gallery of Pierre Loeb. Mother and daughter start to specialize in modern art and contemporary art and especially in ‘Art Informel’ of the 50’s and the 80’s. They are now specialists of artists such as Jean Degottex, Hans Hartung, Pierre Tal-Coat, Henri Michaux, André Marfaing, Vera Molnar or Mario Giacomelli.
Gallery artists
Marisa Albanese • Eric Antoine • Eve Aschheim • Georges Badin • Pierre Bonnard • Gregorio Botta • Marie-Claude Bugeaud • Pierre Buraglio • Amélie Chabannes • John Craven • Jean Degottex • André Derain • Jean Dieuzaide • Bernard Faucon • Anne Ferrer • Marc Ferroud • Pascal Frament • Daniel Frasnay • Mario Giacomelli • Hans Hartung • Bertrand Hugues • Elvire Jan • Marine Joatton • Peter Knapp • Giulia Manset • André Marfaing • Etienne Martin • Gastineau Massamba • Henri Michaux • Vera Molnar • Ernest Pignon-Ernest • Jacques Prévert • Antoine Schneck • Jean-Pierre Schneider • Malick Sidibé • Pierre Tal-Coat • Alain Turpault • Claude Viallat • Etienne Viard • Zao Wou-Ki