Carmelo ARDEN-QUIN [Uruguayan] (1913-2010) - Lot 9

Carmelo ARDEN-QUIN [Uruguayan] (1913-2010) Composition, 1993 Mixed media on cut cardboard. Signed and dated lower right. 20.5 x 21 cm Provenance : Galerie Krief, Paris. Born in Uruguay in 1913, Carmelo Arden Quin was close to Joaquin Torres Garcia before moving to Argentina and Paris in 1948. He founded the Arte Concreto-Invención and MADI (MAtérialisme DIalectique or Movimiento Abstraccion Dimension Invención) groups in 1945 and 1946. He laid the foundations of kinetic art, later reinvented by Jesús-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Victor Vasarely (who elaborated its theoretical foundations in his preface to the catalog of the Galerie Denise René exhibition Le Mouvement in 1955). An adept of the Shaped Canvas before Frank Stella, he uses openwork, asymmetrical, removable, mobile or articulated supports to create dynamic combinations and optical effects.