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Dóra Maurer

Dóra Maurer
Maurer in 2011
Born(1937-06-11)11 June 1937
Budapest, Hungary
Died14 February 2026(2026-02-14) (aged 88)
Known forVisual art
Websitedoramaurer.com

Dóra Maurer (11 June 1937 – 14 February 2026) was a Hungarian visual artist whose work spanned a 50-year career.[1] She worked in almost every medium, from film and photography to painting, performance and sculpture.[2] Principally achieving recognition in the 1970s with avant-garde work, Maurer developed her art career from works with contemporary and modern influences that have been shown worldwide. Her art is based on mathematical and complex system processes. Most of Maurer's work follows the theme of showing options to the viewer and what the viewer can do with those options. Many of her works break down simple actions so the viewer can really view the piece as movement, not a photograph of movement. In addition Maurer was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Budapest[3] and a curator.

Life and career

Maurer was born on 11 June 1937.[4] She trained as a graphic artist in the 1950s.[5] In the 1970s she started to work in photography and moving images, often collaborating with musicians. She also taught creative performative workshops. She created increasingly geometric and abstract drawings and paintings in the 1970s onwards.[5]

From 2019 to 2020, she was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern.[5] White Cube Gallery began to represent Maurer in 2019.[6] She was also represented by Carl Kostyál.

Maurer died on 14 February 2026, at the age of 88.[7]

Works

In Dóra Maurer's work, geometric, mathematical, and conceptual[8] systems all appear. These were the processes in which her mind thought when creating her art. Maurer explored different cycles in showing things such as simple actions to make the viewer see her art as movement. She simply gave the viewer examples of things she could do with different objects, to make them think about what they would do. All of Maurer's work displays geometric compositions and designs. She was very methodical with the composition she used, like the images, lines, width of lines, colors, angles, and more. Some of her best known works come from her quasi-photos, her series Reversible and Changeable Phases of Movement, and her last series, Overlappings.

While Maurer stated that her works are simple examples of what she could do, many critics like to attach political undertones to them. In the past, people have said that her works are examples of the socialist background in which she grew up. It is important to note, however, that Dóra Maurer did not consider her art political, nor did she bear the thought in mind when creating it. In fact, Maurer said that the only reason people say her work is political, is because everything made during that time was political.[9] Most of this critique is attributed to her work done from the 1960s until the 1980s.

Maurer began to develop surreal etchings in 1961, exploring the technical possibilities of the medium. From 1969 to 1970 she began to create time-based works that time and space and energy have on an event. In the experimental film Timing (1973–1980) she folds a white cloth against a black background, making it as small as possible, in a total of seven steps. As the image itself is halved, then divided in four and finally in eight, and the steps in the folding process are played at the same time, the white surfaces of the cloth merge in some places, resulting in one image. [10]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Dóra Maurer, Carl Kostyál, London, 2015[11]
  • Museum Ritter – Snapshots, 18 October 2014–19 April 2015[12]
  • 6 out of 5, Curated by Katharine Kostyál, White Cube Masons Yard, 24 May 2016–9 July 2016[13]
  • Dóra Maurer, Curated by Katharine Kostyál, White Cube Bermondsey, 12 September 2019–3 November 2019[14]
  • Tate Modern – 5 August 2019 – 5 July 2020[5][15]
  • Dóra Maurer – SUMUS – We Are Together, De Appel, Amsterdam, 8 July – 23 September 2023[16]

Group exhibitions

References

  1. ^ "Dora Maurer". Artinfo. Archived from the original on June 17, 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Dóra Maurer review – the gentle art of subversion". the Guardian. August 11, 2019.
  3. ^ Wannieck Gallery. "Dora Maurer". Wannieck Gallery. Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  4. ^ Profile of Dóra Maurer
  5. ^ a b c d Tate. "Dóra Maurer – Exhibition at Tate Modern". Tate. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  6. ^ Shaw, Annie (September 5, 2019). "Dora Maurer: 'a lack of market was positive for my work'". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  7. ^ Meghalt Maurer Dóra képzőművész (in Hungarian)
  8. ^ Balvanyos, Anna. "Dora Maurer". E-Flux. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  9. ^ Rappolt, Mark. "Dora Maurer". Art Review. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  10. ^ Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain. ISBN 978-3-96098-527-3.
  11. ^ "Dóra Maurer – Carl Kostyál". Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  12. ^ "Dóra Maurer - Snapshots". Museum Ritter. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  13. ^ "White Cube – Dora Maurer Masons Yard 2016". whitecube.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  14. ^ "White Cube – Dora Maurer Bermondsey 2019". whitecube.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  15. ^ Tate. "Dóra Maurer – Exhibition at Tate Modern". Tate. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  16. ^ "Dóra Maurer – SUMUS – We Are Together - Archive - de Appel Amsterdam". www.deappel.nl. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  17. ^ "For Pete's Sake – Carl Kostyál". Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  18. ^ Women in abstraction. London : New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021. p. 170. ISBN 978-0500094372.
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