Carmelo Arden Quinn

CARMELO ARDEN QUINN (Uruguay, 1913 – France, 2010).
Untitled, 1992, from the “Olympic Centennial Suite.”
Lithograph on 270-gram Vélin d’Arches paper, print no. 116/250.
Signed and numbered by hand.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.
The Olympic Suite consists of 50 lithographs and silkscreen prints selected to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centennial of the modern Olympic movement. The selected artists work in a wide variety of movements and styles, ranging from Antonio López’s hyperrealism to Sol Lewitt’s abstraction, including Abstract Expressionism, Arden Quin’s Geometrism, Conceptual Art, Pop Art, the New Realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, and the New Fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented are creators of great international renown, widely recognized by critics.
Carmelo Arden Quinn, a prominent painter and sculptor, was the founder, alongside the Argentine-Hungarian artist Gyula Kosice, of “Arte Madí.” He met Joaquín Torres García in 1935, and Torres García would guide him toward abstraction and geometrization.