The Armory Show 2022: New-York - USA

Following the postponement of its participation by one year in the context of the pandemic, the Oniris gallery participates in the prestigious New York fair the Armory Show in September 2022.

It will present a solo-show of historical artworks by Vera Molnar from the 60s, 70s and 80s, when the artist began using computers in her creations.

Often perceived only as an abstract geometric painter in Europe, Vera Molnar is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of digital and algorithmic art with, among her particularities, having an artistic academic background unlike most other pioneers.

Vera Molnar's work has been exhibited several times at MoMA in New York in thematic exhibitions around the early days of digital and generative art:

• On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, en 2011
• Thinking Machines: Art & Design in the computer age, en 2017
• Degree Zero, Drawing at Midcentury, en 2020

In the same topic, Vera Molnar participates in the exhibition Coded: Art at the Dawn of the Computer Age, 1960-80 at the Museum of Los Angeles, LACMA. from early 2023.

This year, Vera Molnar is also exhibiting a set of computer drawings from the 1970s at the 159th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Art, in the general exhibition The Milk of Dreams which will be running from April 23 to November 27, 2022.

This early digital and generative art is opening up to the world with a special focus on collectors of NFT, the burgeoning immaterial digital works.

Vera Molnar's works have only one objective: to put themselves at the service of an imagination that insists on giving itself rules of play to let the line develop on the surface in complete freedom. All these works testify to the fact that Vera Molnar's art is all the more accomplished because it combines order and randomness, the rational and the playful, the finite and the infinite.

this exhibition is supported by the French Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)