Quadrado Convexo 1956

Almir Mavignier painted Quadrado Convexo with focused precision, building its image through countless tiny marks. Can you imagine the meditative state of making this? Laying down each dot, one by one, the artist almost disappears into a world of pure sensation. The surface is alive, vibrating with the energy of these incremental actions. The red ground hums. A pixelated square shimmers in the center, its own geometry softened by the hand-painted touch. The longer I look, the more I feel the artist’s presence. Maybe Mavignier was thinking about the pointillist painters? The way a million little dots can dance together and make a solid form break down into light. There is nothing fixed here. It’s a conversation across time, each artist building on what came before, finding new ways to make us see. It's this act of seeing that makes us feel something new.