Carmelo Arden Quin

Carmelo Arden Quin was born in Rivera, Uruguay in 1913. In 1934
he moved to Montevideo and studied under Joaquín Torres García.
Arden Quin began to experiment with curved wood and irregular
convex and concave forms after being influenced by Torres Garcia’s
geometric forms and ideas about constructivist art. During the 1940s
Arden Quin moved to Argentina, where he co-founded the political
and artistic group MADI, with such artists as Rodolfo Uricchio and
Gyula Kosice. That the art object should break with the figurative
tradition and need no further reference to the outside world other
than its form, was an important leitmotif for the artists associated
with MADI. Some of their most influential devices were the use of
irregular shaped or trimmed frames, mobile wooden forms and
playful bright colours.