13 traces, 2016

Dóra Maurer is one of the defining figures in international and Hungarian Geometric Abstraction. In her creative practice, reproduced graphics, experimental film, installations, painting, and concept art are forms of expression that mutually interpret one another, a means toward knowledge of the world and of oneself. At the beginning of her career, in the 1960s, Maurer worked intensively with reproduced graphics: basically, she considered the prints not as pictures, but as documents, imprints of a state of affairs that had happened to the plate (the surface). The archive pigment print seen here fits well with the artist's earlier concept prints: for thirteen days, day by day she recorded the print of her getting up in the morning. The lines of the sheets, the traces of wrinkles, and the imprint of body movement can be seen as drawings. Maurer replaced what was, as a hand craft, to a certain extent limited, by digital printing, which she says "reacts to the given phenomena faster, with more freshness, and brings them closer to life."