Vera Molnar

Vera Molnar worked with two things at once: the geometric grid and the small error she fed into it. A field of black squares, laid edge to edge, is disturbed. A square shifts, a gap opens, a column leans.

That interference is the method. Molnar sets rules for a series and then decides where to break them, so the drawing stays precise and never quite settles. In 1959 she created the ‘Machine imaginaire’ to carry out her instructions.

Constructivist order, held and interrupted. What the work describes is spacing and its exceptions, not any object in the world.