The Brazilian artist Mary Vieira was a renowned graphic artist and sculptor. She only created four known posters in Europe each exceedingly rare. The poster shown here was for an exhibition of architecture at the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Zurich in 1954.
In 1954 Vieira was one of the few women to achieve success in the male–dominated profession of graphic design: this poster was hailed as the best of the year in Switzerland and awarded the Diplôme d’Honneur du Département Fédéral de l’Intérieur.
Mary Vieira took part in individual as well as collective exhibitions in Europe, Brazil and United States, being awarded a number of important prizes for her work. Mary Vieira died in Basel in 2001.
The artist is recognized by international critics as one of kinetic art’s major representatives. In 1966, she was given the “International Marinetti Award for Plastic Research on Kinevisual Expression” on the occasion of the 20th foundation anniversary of the “Salons des Réalités Nouvelles” in Paris’s Municipal Museum of Modern Art.