(Milan 1930–2004)
Oggetto ottico dinamico, signed, titled and dated Dadamaino/Oggetto ottico dinamico/1964 on the reverse, milled aluminium plates on wood, 211 x 211 cm (diagonal), 150 x 150 cm (side), framed

Photo certificates:
Archivio Dadamaino, Milan, archive no. 076/15 (in the opinion of the Archivio Dadamaino, the work was realized after 1964)
Associazione Amici Dadamaino, Milan, archive no. 160804 (with the work dated 1964);

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany
Galerie zur Krone, Eschenz (Switzerland)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1985 c.)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Frankfurt am Main, Dadamaino. Die unendliche Welt der Dadamaino, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, 16 April - 27 May 2016, exh. cat. with ill.
Lissone, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Premio Lissone 2016, 3 December 2016 – 7 February 2017, exh. cat. p. 107 with ill.

So, at the beginning of the Sixties my research led me to discover the virtual movement. This discovery was shared by other artists from various countries with whom we founded the “Nuova Tendenza” movement. The purpose of this movement was, amongst others, “continuous research”, which was particularly fitting for me. I have always researched: materials, shapes, situations, everything I could. Today, these studies are obsolete, but if I think that a new way of “seeing” resulted from this phenomenological investigation, I believe that sooner or later one has to carefully reconsider this moment that was taken away from us by the mass media without us, its creators, having profited from it in any way.
Dadamaino

The works which, more than any other creation by Dadamaino, represent her research in the Nuove Tendenze movement, were those of the Oggetti ottico-dinamici series: metal chessboards formed out of tiles of different sizes suspended on nylon threads or attached to a table. The alternation of full and empty space, of black and milled aluminium plates, the irregularity of the dimensions and the disposition confounds the composition and transforms squares and rectangles into open, dilated shapes. The object of the vision changes before our very eyes and every portion of space undergoes a metamorphosis. Thus, the rigorously orthogonal metal routes transform into ocular globes, in sequences of diagonals and diamonds.
cf. Elena Pontiggia, Dadamaino, Endas, Milan 1990