Vera Molnar - Genèse d'un carré magique
Inspired by Dürer’s etching “Melancolia”, Vera Molnar continuously interrogates a square filled with numbers of which the sum never changes. She appropriates it and attempts to reveal its secrets.
A 1514 etching by Dürer named « Melancholy » represents a magical square that Vera Molnar discovered when she was a child. Composed by numbers from 1 to 16, disposed on 4 lines and 4 columns, the magical square has a particularity: the sum of every column, line and diagonal is equal to 34.
Since her childhood, the artist has never stopped interrogating that mysterious object and playing with it, in her art. This way, she tries to reveal the many surprises that the square holds for those who try to discover its secrets.
Genesis of the magical square is a tribute to Dürer, 500 years after he created his etching. The sixteen numbers are bound according to a precise sequence, each step binding a number to the next one: from the first to the second, then the first to the second and third etc. until the first is bound to the sixteenth.
In this sequence, the artist offers two variations: at each step, the drawing that appears is moved 45 degrees and the lines get thinner and thinner.
The magical square still has secrets to reveal!
Data sheet
- Size
- 200 x 33 cm
- Justification
- Edition limitée à 1é exemplaires avec certificat numéroté et signé
- Technique
- Sérigraphie sur aluminium anodisé avec châssis
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Inspired by Dürer’s etching “Melancolia”, Vera Molnar continuously interrogates a square filled with numbers of which the sum never changes. She appropriates it and attempts to reveal its secrets.