Almir Mavignier, 1975 Original 5-Color Silkscreen, Addition Permutation Subtraktion Auflösung

A 5-Color Silkscreen poster designed by Almir Mavignier, "Addition Permutation Subtraktion Auflösung" 

33.26 x 23.42 in
84.5 × 59.5 cm


Almir Mavignier (born 1925) is a visual artist, graphic designer, pedagogue. Prior to emigrating to Europe from his native Brazil, he and Abraham Palatnik founded a studio that held painting classes for patients of psychiatric hospitals. At the time, he was interested in Gestalt theory and began making connections between science and art. After completing his studies at the Ulm School of Design, he set up his own graphic design studio and also became affiliated with the Zero group, an experimental collective from Düsseldorf that ran a magazine of the same name. The group was invested in the idea that art should no longer serve as the domain of emotions and subjective expression. Mavignier believed that art and design are related, distinguished only by their goal, which is why his career as a designer and an artist developed in parallel.