Past EXHIBITION
Carmelo Arden Quin - RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION 1938-2009
Mar 21, 2014—Jun 27, 2014
Selected Artworks
Forme Blanche No. 3
Arden Quin, Carmelo
1949
Painted wood
Forme G
Arden Quin, Carmelo
1948
Oil on Cardboard
Arden Quin, Carmelo
Painter, sculptor, and poet. From an early age, he began painting and participating in political demonstrations with friends. In 1935 he met Joaquin Torres Garcia at a conference at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society. That year, after creating cubist style proposals, he made his first geometric non-orthogonal paintings, transgressing the traditional limits of the rectangle. By 1937 he settled in Buenos Aires where he surrounded himself with modern artists and studied philosophy and literature. In 1941 he cofounded the bimonthly newspaper *El Universitario*, where he published his political and aesthetic ideas. He participated in the publishing group of *Arturo. Revista de Artes Abstractas* along with Gyula Kosice, Rhod Rothfuss, Edgar Bayley, Tomás Maldonado and Lidy Prati. In 1944 they edited the sole edition, in which Murillo Mendes, Vicente Huidobro and Torres García also collaborated. This publication marked the beginning of the non-figurative movement in Argentina.
