Nicolas Schöffer
1912 (Kalocsa, Hongrie) / 1992 (Paris)
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Nicolas Schöffer was modern, even visionary. Certainly, his work takes us back to other times. It is an art of the "Trente Glorieuses". An art of the mechanics and the electronics, but which announces the data processing. With his research on cybernetics, interactivity, generativity and their opening to industry, Schöffer has set the stage for very contemporary issues. Star fallen into oblivion, prince of the nights of Saint-Tropez, renowned artist (Grand Prix of the Biennale of Venice 1968 and member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1988) became a geek reference. That's to say that Schöffer has hit it big. At the end of the 1980s, struck by an attack of hemiplegia that deprived him of the use of his right hand, he learned to handle the mouse of the first PCs to explore the possibilities of their graphic cards, a series called Ordigraphics. He died in 1992, with the beginnings of the Internet.
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
Nicolas Schöffer was modern, even visionary. Certainly, his work takes us back to other times. It is an art of the "Trente Glorieuses". An art of the mechanics and the electronics, but which announces the data processing. With his research on cybernetics, interactivity, generativity and their opening to industry, Schöffer has set the stage for very contemporary issues. Star fallen into oblivion, prince of the nights of Saint-Tropez, renowned artist (Grand Prix of the Biennale of Venice 1968 and member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1988) became a geek reference. That's to say that Schöffer has hit it big. At the end of the 1980s, struck by an attack of hemiplegia that deprived him of the use of his right hand, he learned to handle the mouse of the first PCs to explore the possibilities of their graphic cards, a series called Ordigraphics. He died in 1992, with the beginnings of the Internet.