“Volume”

Details

With a confirmation from the Archivio Opera Dadamaino, Somma Lombardo, dated 24.5.2016. This work is registered in the archive under the number 461/10. With a photo expertise by Flaminio Gualdoni. Provenance: Private collection, Italy.

Description

• Eduarda Emilia Maino, known as Dadamaino, was the most important representative of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s • Together with Piero Manzoni, Turi Simeti and Agostino Bonalumi, she exhibited at the famous Azimut Gallery in Milan and was an international member of the ZERO movement
• With her “Volumes”, she created unique compositions in the wake of Lucio Fontana Dadamaino was the only woman in the circle of Milanese artists around the Azimut Gallery. In the 1960s, she worked in black and white, freeing the canvas from both the surface and its limitations by cutting out holes. With the title of the early series of works, the artist expresses what she is concerned with: volume. In her conception, the canvas is neither a projection surface nor confined to a rectangle. Although Dadamaino’s work comes close to the radical solutions of Lucio Fontana in its boldness, she was only recognised later and was invited to the Venice Biennale for the first time in 1980.