Dadamaino
{{Short description|Italian visual artist and painter}}
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| birth_name = Eduarda Emilia Maino
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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.{{cite web | url=http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=200 | title=Dadamaino | publisher=Guggenheim Venice | accessdate=June 25, 2014 | archive-date=April 19, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419020227/http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=200 | url-status=dead }}
Biography
Eduarda Emilia Maino, nicknamed "Dada" for Eduarda, was born in Milan, Italy. Dadamaino 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. Members of the group included: Piero Manzoni, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi.{{cite web|url=http://www.tornabuoniart.fr/biographie_dadamaino.php?lang=en | title = Dadamaino, Milan 1930 - 2004 | work=tornabuoniart.fr/| accessdate =June 25, 2014}}
In 1958, Dadamaino produced a series of works called Volumi, which were exhibited in her first solo show at the Galleria dei Bossi in Milan the same year.Bernard Blistène and Flaminio Gualdoni, Dadamaino, Forma Edition, 2000, p21. {{ISBN|978-88-96780-53-4}}
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.
The following years brought important experiments, among them the occupation with color grading and interferences between 1966 and 1968. Dadamaino 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", an "exploration of the color". In squared plates Dadamaino analyzes the reciprocal effect of color and form, by grading each color in light and dark shades and contrasting it in lamellar stripes, she creates motion in the observer's eye. These were works of special aesthetic and one of her most important period of creation.{{cite web|url= https://archiviodadamaino.it/portfolio/ricerca-del-colore-1967-68/|title=Ricerca del colore 1967-68|website=Archivio Dadamaino|accessdate=1 December 2020}}
Dadamaino counted Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein as major influences.{{fact|date= December 2024}}
Dadamaino's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.{{cite book |title=Women in abstraction |date=2021 |publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc |location=London : New York, New York |isbn=978-0500094372 |pages=170}}
Exhibitions
Dadamaino had two solo shows at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1990.{{cite web |title=Dadamaino {{!}} Artist |url=https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/artists/dadamaino/ |website=Peggy Guggenheim Collection |access-date=12 December 2024 |language=en}}
- 1962 : Nul group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands{{cite web |title=Dadamaino |url=https://www.mlfineart.com/artists/88-dadamaino/ |website=ML Fine Art - Matteo Lampertico |access-date=12 December 2024 |language=en}}
- 1983 : Retrospective, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy{{cite web |title=Dadamaino |url=https://www.tornabuoniart.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dadamaino_biography.pdf |website=Tornabuoni Art |access-date=12 December 2024}}
- 2000 : Retrospective, Bochum museum, Bochum, Germany{{cite web |title=Dadamaino |url=https://www.jcmc.art/artists/dadamaino/ |website=Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection |access-date=12 December 2024}}
- 2011 : "Volumes 1958-60", The Major Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 2013 : Dadamaino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France{{cite web |title=Dadamaino |url=https://www.leconsortium.fr/en/dadamaino |website=Le Consortium |access-date=13 December 2024}}
- 2013 : Dadamaino, Tornabuoni art, Paris, France
- 2017 : Dadamaino, Mendes Gallery, New York{{Cite web |title=Dadamaino |url=https://mendeswooddm.com/exhibitions/250-dadamaino/ |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=Mendes Wood DM |language=en}}
- 2023 : Dadamaino 1930–2004, MA*GA, Gallarate{{Cite web |title=MA*GA Art Museum - Exhibitions DADAMAINO 1930-2004 |url=https://www.museomaga.it/en/mostre/208/dadamaino-1930-2004 |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=www.museomaga.it}}
Collections
Dadamaino’s works can be seen in collections such as:
- GAM, Turin{{cite web |title=Dadamaino |url=https://www.gamtorino.it/it/artistpage/dadamaino/ |website=Galleria d’Arte Moderna Torino |access-date=13 December 2024 |language=it}}
- MART, Rovereto{{cite web |title=La ricerca del colore - 100 elementi - Dadamaino |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/la-ricerca-del-colore-100-elementi-dadamaino/0QFJP5dYZTy_wA?hl=en |website=Google Arts & Culture |access-date=13 December 2024 |language=en}}
- Museo del Novecento, Milan
- Museion, Bolzano
- Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble{{cite web |title=Volume |url=https://www.museedegrenoble.fr/oeuvre/7601/1922-volume.htm |website=Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble |access-date=13 December 2024 |language=fr}}
- Centre Pompidou, Paris{{cite web |title=Dadamaino (Eduarda Emilia Maino, dite) |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/personne/cdqqeRp |website=Centre Pompidou |access-date=13 December 2024 |language=en-EN}}
- Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein{{cite web |title=Dadamaino, Volume a moduli sfasati, 1960, Hilti Art Foundation |url=https://kunstmuseum.li/?page=31&kid=142&lan=en |website=Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein: Kunstwerk des Monats |access-date=13 December 2024 |language=de}}
- Tate Modern, London{{cite web |title=Dadamaino 1930–2004 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dadamaino-14983 |website=Tate |access-date=13 December 2024}}
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia{{cite web |title=Volume a moduli sfasati |url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/342295 |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=13 December 2024 |language=en}}
- Guggenheim, Venice{{Cite web |title=Dadamaino {{!}} Artist {{!}} Peggy Guggenheim Collection |url=https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/artists/dadamaino/ |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=www.guggenheim-venice.it |language=en}}
- Kunstmuseum Reutlingen / konkret, Reutlingen{{Cite web |title=Kunstmuseum Reutlingen {{!}} SAMMLUNG KONKRETE KUNST |url=https://www.kunstmuseum-reutlingen.de/de/Sammlung/Sammlungsprofil/SAMMLUNG-KONKRETE-KUNST |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=www.kunstmuseum-reutlingen.de}}
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Category:20th-century Italian painters