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THE MANFRED MOHR RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
February - July 2000
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THE MANFRED MOHR RETROSPECTIVE EXHBIITION
ABOUT THE ARTIST
| Born on June 8. 1938 in Pforzheim (Germany) Studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983 Lives and works in New York since 1981 |
| 1957 Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting) Jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe) |
| 1960 Action paintings |
| 1961 Receives school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim |
| 1962 Beginning of the exclusive use of black and white as means of visual and aesthetic expression |
| 1965 Studies lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris Geometric experiments lead to hard edge painting |
| 1968 First one-man exhibition at the Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris Systematization of the picture content |
| 1969 Publication of the visual book 'Artificiata I' First drawings with a computer |
| 1972 Sequencial computer drawings are introduced Beginning of work on fixed structures: the cube |
| 1973 Receives awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in Ljubljana |
| 1977 Beginning of work with the 4-D hypercube and graph-theory |
| 1980 Workphase: Divisibility, dissection of cube |
| 1982 Quasi-organic growth programs on the cube |
| 1987 Renewed work on the 4-D hypercube. Four-dimensional rotation as generator of signs |
| 1989 Extending work to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube Rotation as well as projection as generators of signs |
| 1990 Receives the 'Golden Nica' at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz and the 'Camille Graeser Prize' in Zürich |
| 1991 Workphase: Laserglyphs, diagonal-paths through 6-D hypercube are cut from steel plates with a laser |
| 1994 The first comprehensive monograph on Manfred Mohr was published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich |
| 1997 Was elected a member of the American Abstract Artists Receives an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts |