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The Mayor Gallery is delighted to celebrate this year's female-led Venice Biennale with artists that we have had the pleasure of working with and promoting over the years. From Surrealist to Zero discover works by eight selected artists in this special viewing room.
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DADAMAINO
Born Eduarda Emilia Maino, Dadamaino (b. 1930 - d. 2004 Milan, Italy) was a multi faceted protagonist of the Milanese avant-garde after the Second World War and was very close to the Italian Spazialisti group. Her significant series Volumes; canvases interrupted by elliptical or round holes, reminiscent of Lucio Fontana, as well as her Sfasati series of regular holes punched through stretched plastic on frames, are concerned with opening up the surface of the artwork to create a three-dimensional quality.
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VERA MOLNÁR
Pre-dating the computer, Molnár (b. 1924 Budapest, Hungary) invented algorithms or “machine imaginaire” that created images by following a set of pre-ordained compositional rules creating colourful abstract geometric works. Her breakthrough came in 1968 when she gained access to a computer at a research lab after teaching herself the early programming language of Fortran and could now program endless variations of algorithms through a machine. A laborious process, Molnar, using a language of 0s and 1s, fed the commands into the computer on punched cards or paper tape which were then outputted to a plotter which conveyed the image directly to paper via a moving pen or pencil. This method allowed her to investigate endless variations in geometric shape and line.
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Women Artists at the Venice Biennale
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