Dóra Maurer
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→ Dóra Maurer: The Thematisation of Structure Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, 2024 Text: Judit Geskó, Christina Végh, Mónika Zsikla
→ Dóra Maurer: To See and to See Differently Kunsthalle Bielefeld - Snoeck, 2023 Text: Christina Végh – Henrike Mund – Zsuzsa László
→ Dóra Maurer: Quod Libet Vintage Galéria, Budapest, 2020 Text: Dávid Fehér 84p
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→ The Thematisation of Structure. Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred 2023
→ Quod Libet. White Cube West Palm Beach, Florida, 2022
→ So sehen und anders sehen. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 2022
→ Minimal Movements, Shifts, 1970–2020. Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, 2021
→ IXEK 7-1. Vintage Galéria, Budapest, 2020
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Dóra Maurer (11 June 1937, Budapest) is a Hungarian visual artist. Between her affinities with concrete art and the influence of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde, she has explored the forms, proportions, and serial nature associated with the notion of motion and change. She practices painting, graphic arts, photography, and experimental film. In the 1970s, through her painting, she came up with the concept of “quasi-images” (quasi-Bilder), based on theories of perception and colour. Her pictorial works are devised from plastic elements, like colours and planes. Where her photographs are concerned, these are subject to a process of distortion and transformation, in order to express her obsession with the fluidity of movement. Maurer also has an important position as a performer, especially when she deals with subjects of gender and political commitment.In her performance What Can One Do with a Paving Stone? (1971), she wraps a cobble stone—symbol of demonstrations and a direct reference to Hungary’s recent history and the 1956 uprising—in a piece of cloth, like a gift, and kisses it as if it were a child looking for affection; with such unusual gestures, she expresses her disagreement, as a citizen but also as a woman, with the violent dimension of militant activities. Alongside her artists friends, Tamás Szentjóby and Miklós Erdély, she worked for many years with the Balázs Béla Studio in Budapest, the mythical hub of Hungarian experimental film, totally supported by the State. With her interest in short films, in Learned Spontaneous Movements (1973), she overlaid the four recordings she had made of a woman reading, thus forming a complex serial composition of images and sounds. With Erdély, she has also organized experimental education workshops for art students, and has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest since the 1990s