Artiste et Ordinateur (Artist and Computer) Portfolio

Basic Information

Title: Artiste et Ordinateur (Artist and Computer) Portfolio
Artist(s): Holger Backstrom and Bo Ljungberg (Beck & Jung) José Bréval Hervé Huitric Monique Nahas Bror Wikström Sture Johannesson Gerhard F. Kammerer-Luka Manfred Mohr Vera Molnar Torsten Ridell Lars-Gunnar Bodin Sven Höglund Jean-Baptiste Kempf Goran Sundqvist
Date Created: 1979
Edition Info:
75/100 - framed set
82/100 - unframed in original portfolio
Unframed Dimensions: 26 x 19.75 in.

Inventory ID: Ordinateur-1979-01

Description

A portfolio comprised of 10 signed and numbered computer generated images printed on 26 x 19.75″ Arches paper. All prints were made after original unique plotter drawings.

The portfolio is housed in a custom box with the edition number written in graphite lower left on the front of the box. The portfolio contains a colophon page with the artist’s names, 8 serigraphs, 1 color photograph, and 1 original inkjet drawing.

Assembled and published by Torsten Ridell, Sweden

Printed in an edition of 100

Holger Backstrom and Bo Ljungberg (Beck & Jung)
Untitled
original inkjet drawing with chine colle
image and chine colle paper: 8.5 x 11″
artist’s name, title, date, and medium printed within the image
signed by both artist’s lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Beck/Jung-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-02

Lars-Gunnar Bodin & Goran Sundqvist (Sundqvist not included on title page)
Untitled
serigraph in three colors
image: 11.5 x 16.5″
signed and dated lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Bodin/Sundqvist-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-03

Jose Breval
Untitled
serigraph in two colors
image: 23 x 18″
signed and dated lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Breval-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-04

Sven Hoglund & Bror Wikstrom
Untitled
serigraph in two colors
image: 12 x 24″
signed by Bror Wikstrom lower right / signed by Sven Hoglund lower middle
numbered lower left
inventory # Hoglund/Wikstrom-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-05

Herve Huitric & Monique Nahas
Untitled
color photograph printed on Kodak paper with chine colle
image and chine colle paper: 12 x 16″
signed lower right within the image
numbered lower left within the image
inventory # Nahas/Huitric-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-06

Sture Johannesson
Untitled
serigraph in two colors
image: 18.75 x 11.75″
signed and dated lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Johannesson-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-07

Gerhard F. Kammerer-Luka & Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Untitled
serigraph in two colors
image: 20 x 11.5″
signed and dated lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Luka/Kempf-1979-01 / Ordianteur-1979-08

Manfred Mohr
P-197 Cubic Limit II
serigraph in two colors
image: 18 x 18″
signed and dated lower right (conceived in 1977, printed in 1979)
numbered lower left
inventory # Mohr-1979-03 / Ordinateur-1979-09

Vera Molnar
196 Carres (196 Squares)
serigraph in two colors
image: 18 x 18″
signed and dated lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Molnar-1979-05 / Ordinateur-1979-10

Torsten Ridell
Untitled
serigraph in two colors
image: 18 x 18″
signed and dated lower right
numbered lower left
inventory # Ridell-1979-01 / Ordinateur-1979-11

L’Artiste et L’Ordinateur was a group exhibition in 1979 in Paris at Centre Culturel Suedois (Swedish Cultural Centre). From there it went to Lille and Caen.

Participating artists were Holger Backstrom and Bo Ljungberg, Lars-Gunner Bodin, Jose Breval, Sven Hoglund and Bror WIlkstrom, Sture Johannesson, Torsten Ridell from Sweden, Herve Huitric and Monique Nahas, Gerhard F. Kammerer-Luka and Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar from France.

It was one of the important early exhibitions of computer art in France. It included artists using computers from Sweden and France, thus affording a valuable insight into computer generated art of the 1970s in this Scandinavian country.

The portfolio Artiste et Ordinateur, which resulted from the exhibition, was assembled and published by one of the participating artists from Sweden, Torsten Ridell. One sheet of the portfolio of Artiste et Ordinateur was created by the participating artists, or the group of artists each. After the tour in France, the show went to Sweden and was shown at various places there, including the Arkiv for dekorativ konst in Lund in 1980 under the title of Dator och Konstnar. Due to the effort of a group of visitors from the Kieler Kunstverein and artist Kammerer-Luka, the exhibition moved to the University Library of Kiel under the title of Wege der Computerkunst in 1981, with additional exhibits by artists Eva Duhmke-Bagge, Axel Schulze, Bettina Hoffmann-Schulze, and Herbert W. Franke.