Almir Mavignier

* 1925 Rio de Janeiro

Selected Works

Untitled

1961

Vita

01.05.1925

Almir da Silva Mavignier is born in Rio de Janeiro

1945

Abitur

1946

Studied painting in Rio de Janeiro. He is co-founder and director of the painting studio at the Centro Nacional Psichiatrico Pedro Segundo, engenho de dentro, Rio de Janeiro (until 1951)

1949

First abstract pictures are created

1951

First solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. Moves to Paris in the same year. Mavignier attends the Académie de la Grande Chaumière until 1953. His first concrete paintings are created in Paris in 1952. In Paris, participates in the Salon de Mai (1952) and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles (1953)

1953 - 1958

1953 Moves to Ulm and begins studying at the Hochschule für Gestaltung under Josef Albers, Johannes Itten and Max Bill, among others

1954

Creation of first dot images

1955

Raster images are created

1956

Optical Art Bilder

1957

Monochrome images

seit 1958

He participated in the 8th evening exhibition "Vibration" organised by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack in their Düsseldorf studio and in the publication "Zero 2" (October 1958). In the following years, Mavignier was involved in the activities of the "Zero" movement

1959

Mavignier sets up his own studio in Ulm. He works as a freelance graphic designer and painter

1960

Mavignier is represented in the exhibition "Concrete Art" at the Helmhaus Zurich

1962

Participation in the exhibition "nul" at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1963

Solo exhibition at the Museum Ulm

1964

Participation in the documenta III in Kassel and the Venice Biennale. Mavignier has a solo exhibition at the Ad Libitum Gallery in Antwerp

1965

Appointment as Professor of Painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Mavignier is represented in the exhibition "The Responsive Eye", Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968

Participation in documenta IV in Kassel. In the following years, Mavignier's works were shown in numerous solo exhibitions, including 1968 at the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1973 at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1974 at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich, 1975 at the Neue Sammlung in Munich, 1985 at the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, 1990 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2000 at the Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, and 2004 at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.

Almir Mavignier

Selected Works

Vita

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