Eduarda Emilia Maino (2 October 1930 – 13 April 2004), known as Dadamaino, was an Italian visual artist and painter. She was a member of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s.[1]
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.jpg) Dadamaino (1994) | |
| Born | Eduarda Emilia Maino 2 October 1930 |
| Died | 13 April 2004 (aged 73) |
Biography
editEduarda Emilia Maino, nicknamed "Dada", was born in Milan.[1] She first completed a medical degree before taking up art at the end of the 1950s. She frequented a group of young artists who followed Lucio Fontana and the spatialism movement, including Piero Manzoni, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi.[2]
In 1958, Dadamaino produced a series of works called Volumi, which were exhibited in her first solo show at Galleria dei Bossi in Milan the same year.[3]
Shortly after, Dadamaino joined Azimuth, a group funded by Piero Manzoni, and the Germany-based Group Zero formed by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker.
In the following years Dadamaino conducted important visual experiments, among them the occupation with color grading and interferences between 1966 and 1968. She intensively examined the effects of spectral colors to which she added black, white and brown in order to interrelate them. In 1967, at the peak of this development, she made her well known "ricerca del colore" (Color Research), a series of squared plates where she analyzed the reciprocal effect of color and form, by grading each color in light and dark shades and contrasting it in lamellar stripes, creating motion in the observer's eye.[4]
Dadamaino's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[5]
Exhibitions
editDadamaino had two solo shows at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1990.[6]
- 1962 : Nul group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands[7]
- 1983 : Retrospective, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy[8]
- 2000 : Retrospective, Bochum museum, Bochum, Germany[9]
- 2011 : "Volumes 1958-60", The Major Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 2013 : Dadamaino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France[10]
- 2013 : Dadamaino, Tornabuoni art, Paris, France
- 2017 : Dadamaino, Mendes Gallery, New York[11]
- 2023 : Dadamaino 1930–2004, MA*GA, Gallarate[12]
Public Collections
edit- GAM, Turin[13]
- MART, Rovereto[14]
- Museo del Novecento, Milan
- Museion, Bolzano
- Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble[15]
- Centre Pompidou, Paris[16]
- Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein[17]
- Tate Modern, London[18]
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia[19]
- Guggenheim, Venice[20]
- Kunstmuseum Reutlingen / konkret, Reutlingen[21]
References
edit- 1 2 "Dadamaino". Guggenheim Venice. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
- ↑ "Dadamaino, Milan 1930 - 2004". tornabuoniart.fr/. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
- ↑ Bernard Blistène and Flaminio Gualdoni, Dadamaino, Forma Edition, 2000, p21. ISBN 978-88-96780-53-4
- ↑ "Ricerca del colore 1967-68". Archivio Dadamaino. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ↑ Women in abstraction. London : New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd.; Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021. p. 170. ISBN 978-0500094372.
- ↑ "Dadamaino | Artist". Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino". ML Fine Art - Matteo Lampertico. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino" (PDF). Tornabuoni Art. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino". Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino". Le Consortium. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino". Mendes Wood DM. Retrieved 2025-03-29.
- ↑ "MA*GA Art Museum - Exhibitions DADAMAINO 1930-2004". www.museomaga.it. Retrieved 2025-03-29.
- ↑ "Dadamaino". Galleria d’Arte Moderna Torino (in Italian). Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "La ricerca del colore - 100 elementi - Dadamaino". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Volume". Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble (in French). Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino (Eduarda Emilia Maino, dite)". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino, Volume a moduli sfasati, 1960, Hilti Art Foundation". Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein: Kunstwerk des Monats (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino 1930–2004". Tate. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Volume a moduli sfasati". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "Dadamaino | Artist | Peggy Guggenheim Collection". www.guggenheim-venice.it. Retrieved 2025-03-29.
- ↑ "Kunstmuseum Reutlingen | SAMMLUNG KONKRETE KUNST". www.kunstmuseum-reutlingen.de. Retrieved 2025-03-29.