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Dadamaino (1930-2004)
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signed, titled and dated 'DADAMAINO-VOLUME 1960' (on the stretcher)
waterpaint on canvas
27 2/3 x 19 ¾in. (70.2 x 50.1cm.)
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Massimo De Carlo, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Further Details

This work is registered in the Archivio Generale Dadamaino, Milan, under no. 217/11.

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Lot Essay

'I made large ovoid slashes on the clean canvases, sometimes only one, as large as the whole picture. After this act of liberation I was puzzled as to how I should proceed. The “how” I solved by turning to Futurism... The wonderful Futurist teaching (who knows why it was forgotten?) was the most vital and real that one could find... Behind the great holes I saw a wall full of light and shadows that vibrated and shifted. That was what I had to seek out and pursue. Until then art had been a static affair, apart from a few pioneers, we had to make it become dynamic again, using instruments derived from the latest technical-scientific developments, once it had been established that art can be made with any means.'
(Dadamaino, quoted in ‘Dadamaino Volumi 1958-60’, https://wsimag.com/art/8772-dadamaino-volumi-1958-60 [accessed on 17th September 2015]).

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