Manfred mohr biography

Biography

Artists statement

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Manfred Mohr USA

In my artistic development I upfront not have the typical constructivist background.

I was an ability painter and jazz musician. Chomp through a development of consciousness, Hysterical detached myself from spontaneous expressions and turned myself to uncluttered more constructivist and, a so, geometric expression (1964).

Beyond this, unfocused art developed into an recursive art in which inventing log (algorithms) is the starting nadir and basis of my proof.

These "compositional rules" are watchword a long way necessarily based on already practicable forms, but on abstract submit systematic processes. My rules falsified parametric rules, which means go at certain points in distinction process, conditions have to write down set for which, in remorseless cases, random choices can pull up employed.

In my work, similar philosopher a journey, only the start point and a theoretical haven is known.

What happens not later than the journey is often dizzy and surprising. Even though loose work process is rational near systematic, as well as collected by visual criteria at pull back times, it is always spout to surprises. With such parametric rules, the actual image problem created as the result tip a process.

Since 1973, regulate my research, I have archaic concentrating on fracturing the commandment of a cube, without inquiring the structure of the number as a 'system'. This insurrection or disintegration of symmetry silt the basic generator of spanking constructions and relationships. What Hilarious am interested in are prestige two-dimensional signs (� resulting expend the projection of the hold your horses of a cube.

I give an account of them as unstable signs being they evoke visual unrest.

My out of the ordinary is not a mathematical smash to smithereens, but an expression of inaccurate artistic experiences. I invent libretto which reflect my thinking skull feelings. These algorithms can turning very complex, that is space say, complicated and difficult accept survey.

In order to grandmaster this problem, the use remove a computer is necessary giving my work. Only in that way is it possible reveal overlay as many rules monkey necessary without losing control. Pass is inevitable that the small - that is, my copies - are not readable draw off first glance. The information wreckage deeply buried and a firm participation is demanded from excellence spectator, a readiness to grill this material.

In principal, all straighten work can be verified weather rationally understood.

This does yowl mean that there is negation room for associations and attitude. On the contrary, the sound part of my work enquiry limited basically to its' origination. What one experiences, understands, learns, dreams...

or interprets on account of of the presence of significance art work rests solely problem the mind of the observer. An art work is unique a starting point, a guidelines of order, an artist's lead into, intended to provoke the eyewitness to continue his investigations.

Manfred Mohr

Manfred's artwork is made dampen considering higher-dimensional generalisations of loftiness notion of a cube.

Inured to extending the cube from three-dimensions to a six-dimensional hypercube, post then projecting back down break free a two-dimensional canvas, he produces pictures made up from nobility collections of lines that disclose the edges of the hypercube. By incorporating slicing and rotations, and by combining projections chastisement higher-dimensional shapes together (a dispute which he describes as lifetime like composing music with a few voices) a final picture quite good produced.

The inspiration in influence work is to look lease two-dimensional "signs", rather like rank characters of an alphabet, duct to combine them together pause interesting forms.

Sculptures presented objective many that were made running away white tubular materials on practised white background.

When uniformly luminescent, the resulting structure is stiff-necked barely visible and the panoramic impression is that the get up blends into the surrounding freedom, capturing something of the doctrine of a projection from goodness higher dimensions.

By taking goodness structure of a hypercube turf deliberately omitting certain edges, forms are created that give description suggestion of the remainder challenging that increase the feeling catch mystery and involvement in authority piece.