Basic Information
Artist(s):
Title:
P-159 R Cubic Limit I
Medium:
Surface Size:
20 x 20 in.
Framed Size:
21.75 x 21.75 in.
Date Created:
1974
Inventory #:
Mohr-1979-02
Description
signed lower right
“New York Nov. 5 1983 AE=O” written on the back of the frame
This algorithm uses the 12 edges of the cube as an alphabet. The number of lines slowly decreases towards the sides of the outside square in a statistical procedure, while the cube slowly rotates.
In Cubic Limit, Mohr introduces the cube into his work as a fixed system with which signs are generated. In the first part of this work phase (1972–75), an alphabet of signs is created from the twelve lines of a cube. In some works, statistics and rotation are used in the algorithm to generate signs. In others, combinatorial, logical and additive operators generate the global and local structures of the images.
In the second part of this work phase (1975–77), cubes are divided into two parts by one of the Cartesian planes. For each image the two partitions contain independent rotations of a cube. They are projected into two dimensions and clipped by a square window (the projection of a cube at 0.0.0 degrees). By rotating both parts of these cubes in small but different increments, long sequences of images are developed.
Detail images of the work
signed lower right in graphite titled lower center in graphite numbered E.A. lower left in graphite artist’s name, date, and program title printed within image lower left provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives
signed lower right in graphite numbered E.A. lower left in graphite artist’s name, date, and title printed within image lower left provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives
signed lower right in graphite numbered E.A. lower left in graphite provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives The portfolio was commissioned by Systems Dimensions Limited, an early Canadian computer services firm, in 1973 as a way of promoting computers not only as a tool to expand industrial and administrative efficiency, but also as […]
signed and dated lower right in graphite numbered E.A. XIV/XXX lower left in graphite provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives Random points chosen within a circular area of each square are linearly transformed to each of square’s 4 sides and densely to its center point. Details: http://emohr.com/sc69-73/vfile_112.html A work from this algorithm was […]
