Basic Information
Title: XZ-Plane P.308.3088A II (from the XYZ Series)
Artist(s):
Manfred Mohr
Date Created: 1985
Framed Dimensions: 22.5 x 22.5 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 16.5 x 16.5 in.
Medium: Plotter drawing on paper
Inventory ID: Mohr-1985-01b
Description
computer algorithm created in 1980 / printed in 1985
signed and titled on the front
titled and dated on the back of the frame
this is the second piece from a series of three
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. […]