Trazos

The work explores the dichotomy between order and chaos, two seemingly opposite forces that, however, intertwine to create something new. Lines that, with each stroke, draw an ordered structure. Inspired by “Structure de quadrilatères”. Vera Molnar. (1985). And his “machine imaginaire”, a systematic process to generate series of abstract geometric drawings, governed by chance and mathematics.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The code generates a base grid where lines are drawn dynamically, allowing the piece to be constantly evolving or replicated with slight variations. Each line is positioned within a specific frame, but its arrangement is random within that frame, giving it an organic and uncontrolled appearance, inviting the viewer to get lost in its details.

Vera Molnar was not interested in perfection, but in imperfection, she experimented with series and variations of her works, always allowing ‘1% désordre’, the factor of chance to determine part of the work. In the text “Redefinition of artistic practices” (2008) José Luis Brea writes:

“For more than one reason we should compare the work of art to that of dreams: it is a production that induces surface formations that express, that roughly translate, an unbalanced state of energies. What is essential in them is not the form or appearance they acquire at a given moment: but the field of intensities - that is, the differential of potentials - in which they are carried out.”[^note01]

In my opinion, this is the case of “Computer art”, as Brea calls it in the text “Brief (and messy) antiglossary - or dictionary of topics - on electronic art.” (2002), the computer and its algorithms allow us to bring ideas to the world that perhaps we had only imagined (or dreamed of), and in which the possibilities are infinite. ‘Trazos’ creates a unique and unrepeatable combination at every moment, pursuing the balance between chaos and order.

Literature

BREA, José Luis. (2008). “Redefinición de las prácticas artísticas (s. 21)” en El tercer umbral. Estatuto de las prácticas artísticas en la era del capitalismo cultural. Murcia: CENDEAC, pp. 106-113.