A large collection of works, increased by artists’ donations and by extended loans of important collectors, documents the modernity and vitality of the Madì Movement, an international reality active for over six decades in the field of abstract research.
The Madì Movement (Dialectical Materialism) started in Buenos Aires on August 3rd 1946, on the occasion of an exhibition at the Instituto Francés de Estudios Superiores, when Carmelo Arden Quin read the Madì Manifesto, returning on what he published on the single issue of the magazine “Arturo” in 1944: «Ninguna Expresión, Rapresentaación, Significación. El ombre conqistarà el spacio multimensional. Jubilo. Negación de toda melancolia. Voluntad constructiva. Comunión. Poesía del contacto social».
Result of the split of an already existing and larger group of Argentinian artists, called first Arte Concreto and then Arte Concreto- Invencion, the movement is characterized by its explicit anti-fascist and anti-Nazi positions and it aims to investigate the creative potentialities with the absolute freedom from the naturalistic or figurative representation, exploring all the spacial dimensions.
After Carmelo Arden Quin moved to Paris in 1948, Salvador Presta, who lived at that time in Buenos Aires, became a member of the Madì Movement and after his return to Italy, following Lucio Fontana, in 1948 in Genoa proposed the creation of the first Italian group, which, however, had a short life. In 1991Presta, for the second time and with successfully, patronized the creation of the “Group Madì Italia”, at the Art Struktura in Milan.
Nowadays 18 artists are involved in the renewed Associazione Arte Madi Italia (Madi Italia Art Association) and they belong to different Italian regions, but the International Madi Movement can also count on groups in Argentina, France, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and on other solo artists in Brazil, Japan, Spain, United States, Sweden, Slovak and Venezuela.
The hall would like to provide an exhaustive evidence of a still alive and actual movement, which increases over time with new members.
