Ohne Titel (Gleiche Dreiecke) 1967

Almir Mavignier created this vibrant, untitled work with paint, building up the image from countless tiny dots. The systematic application of paint, a process demanding both precision and patience, gives the artwork its unique visual texture. The colors appear to blend, yet retain their discrete identity. It’s an aesthetic that walks a line between the handmade and the mechanically produced. The artist would have had to engage with the properties of paint, learning to control its viscosity to achieve these crisp, clean edges. This points to the wider social context of geometric abstraction. The careful control of color, line, and form aligns with the precision demanded by industrial manufacturing. Yet at the same time, the regular pattern of hand-painted dots subtly reasserts the presence of the artist, and the value of hand-made labor. Paying attention to materials and making helps us see how this work challenges traditional distinctions between the industrial and the artisanal.