Dadamaino (Eduarda Maino, Milan, 1930 – Milan, 2004) had an artistic career influenced by different movements and art tendencies that emerged in Europe in the late forties. Her approach to spatialism is evident in her work and the influence of other groups such as ZERO in Germany, Equipo 57 in Spain or Azimuth in Italy, in which she actively participated. Soon, she would end up creating her own line of artistic research while developing a growing interest in social activism and especially in the Italian feminist movement in which, since 1968, she would be involved in numerous protests.
From 1958 she expanded the notion of spatialism that Fontana had initiated, turning the emptiness of those Concetto spaziale into Volumes. Dadamaino’s Volume series consists of imperfectly cut canvases that generate a volumetric spatiality that is very characteristic of her work. The artist draws on a scientific sensibility and a taste for mathematical reality allowing her to develop analytical reflections and structural models that permeate her research. Her Volumeseries eventually lead her to a line of work centered on optical vibration.
The work by Dadamaino (Milan, 1930-2004) has been exhibited in important institutions throughout the world such as: Tate Modern, London, UK; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France; Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Musée Virgilien, Virgil, Italy; Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany; Sydney Art Museum, Sydney, Australia; Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy; Palazzo delle Sposizioni, Rome, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Loggia dei Lanari, Perugia, Italy; Siftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; New Vision Center, London, UK, among many others.
His work is part of important collections including: Tate Modern, London, UK; Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy; Foundation of Concrete Art, Reutlingen, Germany, among others.
