Parallel Lines: Race (with Zoltán Lábas); Interaction for Two Cameras, with Explanation (Párhuzamos vonalak. Versenyfutás (Lábas Zoltánnal); Interakció 2 kamerára, magyarázattal) & Parallel Lines; Interaction for Four Cameras (with Erdély, Berényi, Lábas) (Párhuzamos vonalak; Interakció 4 kamerára, közrm?köd?k: Erdély, Berényi, Lábas)

Parallel Lines: Race (with Zoltán Lábas); Interaction for Two Cameras, with Explanation (Párhuzamos vonalak. Versenyfutás (Lábas Zoltánnal); Interakció 2 kamerára, magyarázattal) & Parallel Lines; Interaction for Four Cameras (with Erdély, Berényi, Lábas) (Párhuzamos vonalak; Interakció 4 kamerára, közrm?köd?k: Erdély, Berényi, Lábas)

Dóra MaurerWW-1977-092874
1977·Gelatin silver prints and drawing on paper·Overall: 46.1 × 96 cm (18 3/16 × 37 13/16 in.); Mount: 70 × 100 cm (27 9/16 × 39 3/8 in.)

<p>Dóra Maurer—painter, filmmaker, photographer, and longstanding professor of art in Budapest—works within a framework of geometric abstraction grounded in 1920s Constructivism and its postwar revival as a form of performance art in Latin America and Eastern Europe. <em>Parallel Lines</em> is one of many investigations in “living geometry” that Maurer undertook beginning in 1972: here she asked a student to run against her on the opposite side of an apartment block balcony, each snapping pictures of the other side at predetermined points in the race. The top and bottom positions are switched in the final mounted version, which also includes a second camera “interaction,” in which the two protagonists alternately face and run past each other in a park.</p>

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Year
1977
Dimensions
Overall: 46.1 × 96 cm (18 3/16 × 37 13/16 in.); Mount: 70 × 100 cm (27 9/16 × 39 3/8 in.)

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Dóra Maurer
Dóra Maurer

Photography

Dóra Maurer is a Hungarian artist working across painting, drawing, and experimental photography since the 1960s. Her practice centers on systematic investigation of color, line, and perception, often employing geometric grids and serial methods to generate visual variations. Working in Budapest during the postwar period, she developed a rigorous, process-driven approach that bridges abstraction and optical inquiry. Her work engages with both the formal constraints of the grid and the phenomenological effects of repetition and subtle modulation.

Budapest, Hungary

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1977
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Overall: 46.1 × 96 cm (18 3/16 × 37 13/16 in.); Mount: 70 × 100 cm (27 9/16 × 39 3/8 in.)
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WW-1977-092874

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