SCHÖFFER, Nicolas, and FERRIER, Jean-Louis. Interviews with - Lot 290

SCHÖFFER, Nicolas, and FERRIER, Jean-Louis. Interviews with Jean-Louis Ferrier. First edition of these interviews with the father of cybernetic art. An art book containing a multiple and three silkscreen prints signed by the artist. No place. [Paris], Denoël, 1975. Folio size, loose-leaf, blank filled cover, publisher’s slipcase of blue satin lined with gray felt, adorned with the title in silver on the spine and a colored metal plate on the front cover, cardboard case. 55 pp. and table of contents; as a frontispiece, a multiple made of colored aluminum and Plexiglas set in a blue satin frame, and three full-page color silkscreen prints. Tears in the protective cardboard slipcase. First edition of these interviews between Nicolas Schöffer, the father of cybernetic art, and art historian Jean-Louis Ferrier. This art book features a superb multiple as a frontispiece and three color silkscreen prints, numbered and signed by the artist. Limited edition of 155 copies on Arches pure rag vellum (No. 73). Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992), a visual artist and theorist of Hungarian origin, settled in Paris in 1936. Beginning in the 1950s, his “luminodynamic” installations—metal constructions with programmed movements and lighting—established him as a pioneer of kinetic and later cybernetic art, with numerous urban planning projects aimed at repositioning humanity within a creative and liberating environment. A copy in excellent condition.