The Architect of the Grid: The Life and Vision of Arnaud Maggs Arnaud Maggs (1926–2012) was an artist whose work functioned as a profound meditation on order, memory, and the structural essence of identity. Born in Montreal to a diverse and culturally rich lineage—his father a Sikh officer from British India and his mother an Italian sculptor descended from the legendary Benvenuto Cellini—Maggs carried a global heritage into his visual practice. This early exposure to varied cultural tapestries likely informed his lifelong fascination with systems of classification and the way we categorize…