Carmelo Arden Quin

Carmelo Arden Quin (1913, 2010) was a Uruguayan-born artist and co-founder of the Madí movement, an avant-garde artistic and philosophical movement established in Buenos Aires in 1946 that emphasized geometric abstraction, playfulness, and the liberation of form from the traditional rectangular canvas. He pioneered the use of irregular, shaped frames and dynamic, colorful compositions that challenged conventional boundaries between painting, sculpture, and space. Arden Quin was a seminal figure in Latin American constructivism whose influence extended across Europe and the Americas throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.