Summer 2010.
Sammer Gallery, located in Miami’s Wynwood Art District, is currently presenting an exhibition titled Madi, featuring artists Arden Quin, Bolívar, Bay, Kosice, Llorens, Laañ, Rothfuss and Uricchio.
These eight artists featured in the exhibition were part of the Madí group. Madí is a modern art movement known for bright colors and bold geometric forms. In architecture, sculpture and painting, Madí art uses abundant circles, waves, spheres, arches, spirals, and stripes. The word Madí may be originated in letters taken from the name Carmelo Arden Quin, the Uruguayan artist who founded the Madí movement in the 1940’s. Or perhaps the term comes from the English word mad, or from the Spanish description of the movement Movimiento Artístico de Invención.
The focal point of the Madí movement was a break within the figurative tradition. Some of the most original innovations of this movement were the concepts of invention as an aesthetic artistic method and the irregular or trimmed frame. The leimotiv of the Madí was to break the representation line in art in favor of the idea of presenting the work of art as an object itself, showing its own elements without any further reference to reality.
Sammer Gallery
82 NE 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.441.2005
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