Dóra Maurer - Thinking in Proportions

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Dóra Maurer once said that the theme central to her work is “movement in respect to the conceptual and factual effects of displacement”. And indeed, her extensive oeuvre produced since the end of the 1960s consistently documents movement and displacement, specifically with regard to systematics and structurality. It is the duality emanating from a particular, predetermined system combined with the subsequent observation of unforeseen deviations and ruptures that characterizes the process Maurer realized in a multi-faceted form over the course of her artistic career: from her early graphic works to her displacements as she calls them, and culminating in the “quasi-images” that she derived from spatial painting in the 1980s and 90s. Since 1973 Maurer produced a series of films in loose succession that fit in with her investigation of structure and its inherent variability. Initially, these works were solely committed to the concept of repetition and the measurability of movement, but they increasingly became concerned with a conceptual questioning of the image, closely tied to momentary fragmentations of body, movement and space. The “systems” she utilized range from seemingly simple, everyday acts (i.e. the reading of a book), to highly abstract image sequences (i.e. the presentation of purely monochrome color fields). This broad spectrum indicates early on how Maurer’s methodical approach was for all intents and purposes quite universal, although it never explicitly spread to forms of political or social systematics. And yet there is an implicit concern – and perhaps thereby unconsciously more urgent – in regard to the possibility of “dropping out of the system,” as art historian Judit Király maintains. (Christian Höller)

Contents:
- Megtanult önkéntelen mozgások / Angelernte unwillkürliche Bewegungen / Learned Spontaneous Movements (1973, 16mm, b/w, 10 min)
- Relatv lengések / Relative Schwingungen / Relative Swingings (1973/75, 35mm, b/w, 10 min)
- Idömérés / Timing (1973/1980, 16mm, b/w, silent, 10 min)
- Arányok / Proportionen / Proportions (1979, video, b/w, silent, 10 min)
- Triolák / Triolets (1980, 35mm, b/w, 11 min)
- Kalah (1980, 35mm, color, 10 min)
- Inter-Images 1-3. Retardation, Streams of Balance, Antizoetrope (1989/90, 16mm, color, 17 min)

Bonus Track:
- Térfestés / Raumbemalung, Projekt Buchberg / Space Painting, Project Buchberg (1982/83, 16mm, color, 31 min)

DVD Extra: 20 pages bilingual English-German booklet including DISPLACEMENT EFFECTS by Christian Höller

Dóra Maurer (*1937 in Budapest)
1955-61 College of Fine Art in Budapest (graphics). 1967 work scholarship in Vienna. Since then lives and works in Vienna and Budapest exhibiting graphic works and paintings. Various awards for graphic work. Since 1973 has organized international exhibitions and film presentations. 1987 received the Österreichisches Staatsstipendium (Austrian state scholarship) for fine art. 1989 received the Österreichischer Arbeitsstipendium (Austrian work scholarship award) for film. After teaching at intermediate level state schools in Hungary, she received in 1987, an invitation to give an audio-visual course at the College of Applied Arts in Budapest. In 1990 received her own interdisciplinary painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Member of the Austria Filmmakers Cooperative, the Hungarian Artists' Association of Fine Arts, and a senior of the Béla-Balázs-Studio in Budapest.

Supported by: the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Kontakt. Art Collection (Erste Group / ERSTE Foundation). Cooperation with Filmarchiv Austria.

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28,80 EUR

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Publishing date: 

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Runtime: 

109 min

Discs: 

1 DVD9

Language: 

German

Subtitles: 

German

Region: 

Multizone

Video: 

PAL

Aspect ratio: 

4:3

Colour: 

Colour & B&W

Sound: 

Sound