Dóra Maurer
Hidden Structures I-III

Hidden Structures I-III
Hidden Structures I-III
Hidden Structures I-III
ArtistHungarian, born 1937
CultureHungarian
Titles
  • Hidden Structures I-III
Date1979
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsImage (.A): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet (.A): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Image (.B): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet (.B): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Image (.C): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet (.C): 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (29.5 × 41.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Clare Glassell, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan, and F. Richard Pappas in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker with additional funds from the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2014.680.A-.C
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionLike pre-World War II Modernists, particularly fellow Hungarian László Moholy-Nagy, Dóra Maurer works in multiple media—photography, film, graphic design, performance, and installations. Her works are both playful and informed by scientific observations, including mathematical and conceptual processes as well as theories about color and perception. For each of the images in her triptych Hidden Structures I–III, Maurer folded a piece of photographic paper in multiple ways, with each crease creating the range of geometric shapes that animate the paper. She also drew on various sections with graphite and then exposed the paper to light. In development, the graphite washed away. The resulting images become one document of various states of each sheet of paper.
Provenanceartist through Vintage Galéria, Budapest, Hungary, 1979; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2014
Exhibition HistoryParis Photo, Grand Palais, 2013

“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
.B) Inscribed in foreign language, a title, number(3), date and signature
A-C) inscriptions on verso upper left are upside down
A-C) Signed in graphite on verso upside down: 1979 Maurer

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