Dadamaino


Eduarda Emilia Maino, 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 Lucio Fontana and the spatialism movement. Members of the group included: Piero Manzoni, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi.
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 Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker.
Dadamaino counted Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein as major influences.

Exhibitions

Dadamaino had two solo shows at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1990.
Dadamaino’s works can be seen in collections such as the Tate in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Foundation of Concrete Art in Reutlingen, Germany and the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce in Genoa.