Eduarda Emilia Maino, known as Dadamaino, was an Italian visual artist and painter.
10 Facts About Dadamaino
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Dadamaino was a member of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s.
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Dadamaino first completed a medical degree before taking up art at the end of the 1950s.
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Dadamaino frequented a group of young artists who followed Lucio Fontana and the spatialism movement.
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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.
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Shortly after, Dadamaino joined Azimuth, a group funded by Piero Manzoni, and the Germany-based Group Zero formed by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Gunther Uecker.
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Dadamaino intensively examined the effects of spectral colors to which she added black, white and brown in order to interrelate them.
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Dadamaino counted Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein as major influences.
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Dadamaino's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.
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Dadamaino had two solo shows at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and in 1990.