Delmar Mavignier — Institutional

Delmar Mavignier (b. 1968, Germany) is an artist, photographer, video editor and responsible for the archive and studio of his father, the painter and graphic designer Almir Mavignier (1925-2018). For more than twenty-five years, father and son maintained an ongoing collaboration dedicated to the translation of Almir’s paintings into graphic and digital media, expanding the reach and understanding of an essential work for concrete art and modern design

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His work stems from the interaction with the principles that guided post-war constructive production: the search for a visual language freed from the subjectivity of pictorial gesture, the democratization of the compositional elements, and the use of systems, colors, and materials capable of generating open, participatory and anti-expressive perceptions. If in Almir’s canvases the surface eliminates the brush line in favor of the interaction between color, light and internal structure, Delmar updates this research by applying color and composition algorithms from the Mavignierian collection to contemporary

media.

For the centenary of Almir Mavignier, Delmar developed a series of lenticular works that translate historical compositions onto a multilayered support, in which the observer triggers variations of light, color, and rhythm through movement. Although signed by Delmar and accompanied by the Atelier Mavignier seal, the works fully preserve the chromatic and structural systems conceived by his father, reaffirming a collaborative ethic and

the continuity of research that crosses generations.

His production also covers photography, video, and music. In the series Águas, presented at the Afro Brazil Museum, Delmar explores abstract images of water in photographs, videos, and lumigrams taken in Brazil, Germany, and Japan. In her sound research, she investigates the rhythm inherent to the visual grids and punctuations present in Almir’s repertoire, translating it into compositions that make the temporal dimension of the concrete

work audible.

Delmar Mavignier currently lives in Hamburg, where he maintains Atelier Mavignier. He was recently in Brazil to photograph the architecture of the IEB/USP, a material that integrates a new visual composition dedicated to his father’s legacy. His work articulates memory, technique and experimentation, projecting into the present the vitality of the constructive systems and the perceptive openness that defined Almir

Mavignier’s production.