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Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris
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Vera Molnár (born in Budapest in 1924, and resided in Paris from 1947 until her death on 7 December 2023 at the age of 99) was a pioneer of digital art. 

Her works, sustained by a knowledge of the psychology of shapes and the laws of vision, designed in a constructivist approach around 1947, became artistic interrogations of perspective. As a cybernetician and computer scientist, Molnár established what she called an "imaginary machine" in the 1960s, before becoming the first artist in France (1968) to produce digital drawings using a computer connected to a plotter. Up until the mid-90s, she engaged in a systematic exploration of families of forms, showcasing their mutations while usually prioritizing iteration and seriality.

Vera Molnár's photographic work is evoked through several series (Etudes sur sable, Studies on sand, 2009; Ombres sur carrelage, Shadows on tiling, 2012; Par temps couvert, In cloudy weather, 2012), while the twenty-two volumes of her "Diary" are presented in their entirety. Bulging with diagrams, photographs and various documents pasted in among their pages, these ordinary exercise books, constitute unique documents on the artist's development and the origin of many of her works.

Photo: Adagp, Paris, 2023 - Centre Pompidou / Dist. Rmn-Gp