Basic Information
Title: Scratch Code Portfolio
Artist(s):
Manfred Mohr
Date Created: 1976
Edition Info: 69/80
Unframed Dimensions: 16 x 16 in.
Medium: serigraph on paper
Inventory ID: Mohr-1976-02, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h
Description
a portfolio of eight black and white serigraphs after original unique plotter drawings with a colophon title page, and a text page, in a custom made portfolio box and slip case
signed and dated in graphite lower right on each serigraph
numbered 69/80 in graphite lower left on each serigraph
numbered 69/80 in graphite on the colophon title page
text page by Gustav Hain
published by éditions média in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 1976.
Detail images of the work
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. […]
“The P-2400 series is based on the 1978 algorithm from the work phase Dimensions I. The first version of this alogrithm did not include the possibility of rotating the four-dimensional hypercube. In 2017, Mohr pursued this original code and directed the algorithm into a different visual solution. Again, the basic 32 lines which constitute the […]
