Entrance | |
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Inside we found a smallish lobby cluttered with colourful canvases and sculptures, setting the tone for the rest of the place. |
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An older woman at the desk was happy to have a little company, and showed us through some hallways outside the exhibit area where there was a little room left for display of the museum's burgeoning collection.
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Lorenzo Piemonto
Madi | |
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Carmelo Arden Quin
(L) R-W-10
(R) Carre Rouge, Forme Galbee | |
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Presta: MADI from Argentina to Italy | |
Volf Roitman | |
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Rotates | |
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Salvador Presta | |
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Vincenzo Mascia |
Liubov Popova
(L) Painterly Architectonic
Auguste Herbin
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Salvador Presta
Trinity | |
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What is MADI? | |
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The MADI movement originated in Buenos Aires, Brazil in the 1940s, and its practitioners have names, mostly Latin-American, unfamiliar to us. The only name recognizable to me was Victor Vasarely , the "grandfather" of the op art movement who had had an exhibition at the museum which I thought was just ending but was in fact staged there last year and I had read their website wrong. |
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Quilts: The New Geometry | |
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Nancy Crow
Constructions #102: Transformation! 66x56" | |
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| Back through the lobby |
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Octavio Herrera | |
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Reale Frangi | |
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Saverio Cecere | |
The piece below is motorized, opening several flaps and pushing out a several discs, then reversing the process. The docent was kind enough to turn it on for us - it's usually left off because it's rather noisy. I'd like to tell you its name and who made it, but there appeared to be no card for it amidst the surrounding jumble.
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| Now up the stairs to the second floor. There's not a lot of empty wall space left in this place. But there's a lot of primary colour! |
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Antonio Perrottelli | |
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Piergeorgio Zangara | |
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We're in the law-office area now, with many of the works on the walls of meeting and filing rooms. Makes for a colourful work environment... |
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(L) Ines Silva
(C) Piergeorgio Zangara
(R) Charles Bezie | |
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Saverio Cecere | |
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Piergeorgio Zangara
Opera MADI #105 | |
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(R) Lia Drei | |
Roger Neyrat | |
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Salvador Presta
MADI (blue with cubes) | |
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Shelly Lependorf | |
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Carmelo Arden Quin | |
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Piergeorgio Zangara | |
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| (T) Flo Barry: Every Which Way (B) William Barbaria: Serpentines | |
| This piece is interactive: segments in each corner can be rotated to make a different pattern.
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There's a little audience involvement in this one. First day since we got here that I've had to
wear my hat. |
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A quirky and colourful refuge from a grey wet day.
There's no admission charge, but donations are welcomed, and the collection definitely needs a new and larger space as you may have noticed. |
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