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.

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

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and the spatialism movement. Members of the group included: Piero Manzoni, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani and

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. 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. Shortly after, Dadamaino joined Azimuth, a group funded by Piero Manzoni, and the Germany-based Group Zero formed by

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and

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Exhibitions

Dadamaino had two solo shows at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1990. * 1962 : Nul group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands * 1983 : Retrospective, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy * 2000 : Retrospective, Bochum museum, Bochum, Germany * 2011 : "Volumes 1958-60", The Major Gallery, London, United Kingdom * 2013 : Dadamaino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France * 2013 : Dadamaino, Tornabuoni art, Paris, France

Collections

Dadamaino’s works can be seen in collections such as: *GAM, Turin *MART, Rovereto *

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, Milan * Museion, Bolzano * Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble * Centre Pompidou, Paris * Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein * Tate Modern, London *

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, Philadelphia * Guggenheim, Venice * Kunstmuseum Reutlingen / konkret, Reutlingen

References

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