Manfred Mohr
"subsets"B new paintings and animations
Opening Reception:
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
bitforms gallery
529 west 20th Street, 2nd floor
6-8 pm
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce its second
solo exhibition with computer art pioneer Manfred
Mohr. His new series of abstract paintings and
animations continue to challenge contemporary
notions of fine art process and form.
The rules of geometry, logic, and mathematics are
fundamental to the custom-authored algorithms which
generate Manfred Mohr's artwork. subsets presents a
body of paintings and animations based on the
11-dimensional hypercube. His algorithms have been
based on the logical structure of cubes, including
the lines, planes and relationships among them since
1973. For the past three decades Mohr has worked
specifically with the n- dimensional hypercube.
The pieces in this exhibition display a subset, or
part, of a complete 11-D hypercube structure that
rotates slowly in eleven dimensions before a green
background. The artist's software selects this
subset of cubes from the 42240 possible cubes within
a 11-D hypercube, and also determines which sides of
each cube are black or white. The artworks are
realized as both unique paintings in pigment-ink on
canvas, and screen-based animations generated
directly from the artists' source code running on a
handmade personal computer.
EXHIBITION DATES: January 19 - February 25, 2006
HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm, and by appointment
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steve sacks | director
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bitforms
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529 west 20th | ny ny 10011 USA
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+1 212 366 6939
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tues - sat > 11-6 PM
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