Nicolas Schöffer
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Nicolas Schöffer (Hungarian: Schöffer Miklós; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist. Schöffer was born in Kalocsa, Hungary and lived in France from 1936 until his death in Montmartre, Paris in 1992.
Nicolas Schöffer | |
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Schöffer Miklós | |
Born | 6 September 1912 Kalocsa, Hungary |
Died | 8t January 1992 Montmartre, Paris |
Education | Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University (Budapest), Faculty of Law
Academy of Fine Arts (Budapest) École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris) |
Known for | first cybernetic artwork, painting, graphic, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, video, theatre experiment |
Notable work | CYS1 cybernetic sculpture
SCAM1 automobile sculpture Plan of a Cybernetic Light Tower for Paris Plan of a cybernetic city KYLDEX1 cybernetic theatre experiment |
Style | 1. Period: surrealism, impressionism, expressionism
2. Period: kinetic art, cybernetic art, neoplasticism 3. Period: computer graphics |
Spouse | Marie Rose Marguerite Orlhac Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer |
Awards | Grand prize for sculpture of the Venice Biennale (1968)
Officer in the Légion d'Honneur (1983) Frank J. Malina Leonardo Award for lifetime achievement (1986) Officer in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (1985) Commander in the Ordre National du Mérite (1990) Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary (1990) |
Elected | member of the French Academy of Fine Arts |
He built his artworks on cybernetic theories of control and feedback primarily based on the ideas of Norbert Wiener. Wiener's work suggested to Schöffer an artistic process in terms of the circular causality of feedback loops that he used in a wide range of art genres. His career spanned painting, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, film, theatre, television and music. The quest for dematerialisation of the artwork and the pursuit of movement and dynamics became central themes of his work. He worked with the immaterial media space, time, light, sound and climate that he called the five topologies.
He liberated art genres from their spatial and temporal constraints by creating never-ending sound structures that can be heard all over the cybernetic city of the future, and by designing SCAM1, an automobile sculpture.
Schöffer declared the socialization of art as an important goal. According to his ideas, art should be available as a cultural asset equally to everyone without limitations. The playful and spectacular aspects of his works served the goal of gaining the attention of the audience and involving the viewer through participation in the creative processes. To make art universally available, he explored the possibilities of serial production.[1]