Since the 1950s, Marc Adrian has been experimenting with a variety of artistic media. He belongs to the first postwar generation of Austrian avant-garde filmmakers who developed ‘structuralist films’. He was particularly interested in problems of visual semantics in pictures, objects, texts, and films. He was a member of the New Tendencies movement (Zagreb 1961 to 1973). In 1969, he won an award at the computer art contest of Tendencies 4 (the “New” had meanwhile been dropped from the name). His films of the 1950s and 1960s show traces “in which the dimension of time is brought to bear on minimalist space structures which were sought in the visual arts at the time” (Thomas Rothschild). – Adrian has since 1965 switched his residency between Austria, Germany, Italy, France, and the USA.

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