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

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 Edges)

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.