Untitled Generative Serigraph

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Eduardo Mac Entyre

1972

Serigraph
14.5"x18.5"

Description

Eduardo Mac Entyre’s untitled serigraph from 1972 is a striking example of how technological advances influenced artists working across media in the second half of the 20th century.

In 1959, the then–30-year-old Mac Entyre and fellow abstract painter Miguel Ángel Vidal co-founded the Arte Generativo (Generative Art) movement in Buenos Aires. They chose this term, as explained in a manifesto published the following year, to describe a style of geometric abstraction that “generates” movement through the interplay of lines and shapes. “Rather than try to evade the technological age, it is far more important to engender beauty within it, as these artworks produce STRENGTH and ENERGY as well,” they wrote.

Initially Mac Entyre sketched his compositions by hand, but by the early 1970s he was working with computer programming to create complex arrangements of circular elements, as in this vibrant red-and-blue print.