Abstract EN:

Vera Molnar was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1924. She pursued studies at the Budapest Fine Arts School, where she obtained her diploma in 1947 as an Art History and Aesthetics Professor. During the same year, she migrated to France, along with François Molnar, who would later become her partner in life as well as in creation. They both sttled down in Paris and made it home. Our study seeks to explore Vera Molnar's works in the first years of her creation, during wich time none of them had been sold or put on exhibition. It is during this period that the artist developped modalities of a type of experimental and radical plastic research belonging to the so-called realm of "constructed Art", which can be described even more precisely as "systematic geometrical abstraction" Our investigation consisted in disclosing a large cross-section of Vera Molnar's works during this thirty-year period, in cataloging them, in establishing a hierarchy among them based on chronological divisions ans coherent formal choices, and thereafter in analyzing the modalities of the systems' functioning worked out by the artist. We established a typology responding to three main constructive axes : the universal laws of composition and mathematical laws, the invention and use of the "imaginary machine", the use of tje computer , as early as 1968. Finally, by introducing these works "backward", so to say, in art history, we carried out a theoritical work of re-contextualization aimed at evaluating and situating Vera Molnar' research within the context of artistic movements known as "conceptual" or "minimalist".