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1952
Carmelo Arden Quin
Painting
65 x 43 cm
Oil on panel
Is this a sculpture or a painting? Carmelo Arden Quin’s iconoclastic works cannot be confined to any one category. Freeing itself from the flat picture-plane and the frame, this “shaped canvas” of 1952 heralds the arrival of American minimalism. Its goal is to stretch the traditional limits of the artwork and to explore time, space and movement. Carmelo Arden Quin rejects the narrow framework of the painting, simplifying forms to the extreme and trying to eliminate all subjectivity.
Is this a sculpture or a painting? Carmelo Arden Quin’s iconoclastic works cannot be confined to any one category. Freeing itself from the flat picture-plane and the frame, this “shaped canvas” of 1952 heralds the arrival of American minimalism. Its goal is to stretch the traditional limits of the artwork and to explore time, space and movement. Carmelo Arden Quin rejects the narrow framework of the painting, simplifying forms to the extreme and trying to eliminate all subjectivity.
Carmelo Arden Quin
France
Born in 1913
Carmelo Arden-Quin grew up in Brazil where he studied law. In 1935, he met painter Joaquín Torres García in Montevideo. Settling in Buenos Aires in 1938, he founded the MADI movement in 1946 (acronym formed from the letters of his name: carMelo ArDen quIn) along with artists Martin Blazsko, Esteban Eitler, Gyula Kosice, Ignacio Blazsco and Rhod Rothfuss.
In 1948, Arden-Quin moved to France. That same year, the geometric abstraction gallery, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, in Paris, showed a series of MADI works for the first time in France. Since then, exhibitions and conferences on the movement have been held both in France and abroad. Today, his works are displayed in major modern art museums around the world, notably in New York, Buenos Aires and Paris.
In 1948, Arden-Quin moved to France. That same year, the geometric abstraction gallery, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, in Paris, showed a series of MADI works for the first time in France. Since then, exhibitions and conferences on the movement have been held both in France and abroad. Today, his works are displayed in major modern art museums around the world, notably in New York, Buenos Aires and Paris.
Artwork of
Carmelo Arden Quin
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