Counting, again and again... On the eve of her 100^th birthday, Vera Molnár still listed the months as children usually do. This great lady of geometric abstraction died last December at 99 years and 11 months, just a few weeks before reaching the canonical age. This big name in digital art was not the only one counting the days. Like the Galerie 8+4, the Centre Pompidou also wanted to celebrate the three-dimensional work of a pioneer of computer coding who had the art of building, of deconstruct and twist the necks of algorithms to create a universe of your own.

Imagined as a flamboyant retrospective, this exhibition sounds today like the finest tribute from an institution to its favorite artist. Early works, drawings on paper, paintings and photographs are brought together here for the first time. The exhibition also contains previously unseen pieces such as this sculpture in aluminum and stainless steel or this installation designed after a poem by Shelley, completed in the very last months of 2023. Alert and mischievous, Vera Molnár knew the codes of art , almost had fun with it, going so far as to carry out the heist of the century last year by selling more than 500 NFTs in his name in less than an hour. When we talk to you about a pioneer…