Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1960
Konkrete Kunst: 50 Jahre Entwicklung, Helmhaus Zürich

This iconic exhibition featured Concrete art of the last fifty years, an exhibition that by itself could nearly tell the story of this movement to this point in 1960. It featured works by a veritable who’s who of twentieth century abstract art, including Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Moholy-Nagy and Taeuber-Arp. Perhaps most interesting for our story, one such piece, Effet esthétique de l’inversion des fonctions par la fluctuation de l’attention, appeared at this incredibly prestigious, landmark exhibition by a relatively unkown thirty-six year old Hungarian artist, Vera Molnár.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
- Konkrete Kunst: 50 Jahre Entwicklung, exh. cat., cat. no. 162, 54. Zurich: Helmhaus Zürich, 1960. https://www.maxbill.ch/downloads/kk__50jahreentwicklung_helmhauszurich_1960k.pdf
People
Kazimir Malevich, László Moholy-Nagy, Max Bill, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vera Molnár, Wassily Kandinsky
Movements
concrete art
Filed under
- Ideas
- abstraction, concrete art
- People
- Kazimir Malevich, László Moholy-Nagy, Max Bill, Piet Mondrian, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vera Molnár, Wassily Kandinsky
- Exhibitions
- Konkrete Kunst: 50 Jahre Entwicklung
- Organisations
- Helmhaus
- Places
- Hungary, Switzerland, Zurich
- Other subjects
- Malevich
Echoes across time
- 1946 · Grupo Madí Movement
- 1930 · Concrete Art Coined by Theo van Doesburg
- 1945 · The Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (AACI) Founded
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- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify