Basic Information
Title: P-197 Cubic Limit II (from the Artiste et Ordinateur (Artist and Computer) Portfolio)
Artist(s):
Manfred Mohr
Date Created: 1979
Edition Info:
75/100 framed
82/100 unframed
Framed Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.25 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 26 x 19.75 in.
Medium: serigraph on paper
Inventory ID: Mohr-1979-03 / Ordinateur-1979-09
Description
serigraph after an original unique plotter drawing
image: 18 x 18″
signed and dated lower right (conceived in 1977, printed in 1979)
numbered lower left
Artiste et Ordinateur (Artist and Computer) Portfolio
P 197 Cubic Limit II
Detail images of the work
accompanied by a typed and hand signed letter from Manfred Mohr: “Included you will find some loose FORTRAN punched cards from a now disassembled program of mine, which I wrote in Paris in the early 1970’s”
signed and dated lower right in graphite titled lower left in graphite artist’s name, title, date, measurements, and medium printed on artist’s label attached to the back of the frame
signed and dated in graphite lower right “Works from Mohr’s Line Cluster phase (1989-1990) are based on the 5-dimensional hyper-cube, a structure built from a set of eighty lines. A subset of twenty lines, containing four lines from each “dimensional-direction” are chosen from this structure. Each “dimensional-direction” consists therefore of four parallel lines, represented by […]
signed, titled, and dated on the reverse in graphite image conceived: 1970 drawing on canvas: 1990 “Mohr’s work is an important bridge between handmade manipulations and machine-calculated structures in art. Following a series of geometric experiments, a shift toward hard-edge painting by 1967 immediately preceded Mohr’s use of the computer as a tool for art. […]
