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Antonio Mulaf
Antonio Maluf was born in 1926 in Brazil, during the 1940’s he studied art and design in Sao Paolo at the Escola Livre de Artes Plásticas and moved on to study at the first industrial design course in Latin America, at the Contemporary Art Institute. It was there that his interest in concretism began combined with his love of wall paintings on tiles and prints for fabrics. In 1951 Maluf won a competition to design a poster for the 1st São Paulo International Biennial in 1951 this iconic poster launched him onto the Brazilian art scene.
There is something very composed in Maluf’s work that I am drawn to, his use of geometry is captivating, relying on rigorous calculations, precise angles and measurements, which result in balanced finished pieces, He manages to transform the heavy concrete base material into works that appear light and spontaneous, patterns sometimes winding off rather than ending in a finished repeat adding intrigue producing his own unique modern language.
- Heti Gervis
