Volume, 1960
Tempera on canvas
40 × 32 inches | 100 × 80 cm
Dadamaino was renowned for her innovative and evolving artistic style. Initially influenced by Spatialist and Minimalist masters such as Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, she explored the relationship between art and space through her work. Her best-known series, Volumi, featured canvases with elliptical and circular holes, playing with light and shadow through black and white contrasts and negative space. This series exemplified her disdain for the material and her quest for the immaterial, aiming to make art dynamic once more.
Throughout the 1970s, Dadamaino experimented with Op Art, creating optical illusion paintings that challenged viewers' perceptions. In the following decade, she delved into semiotics, producing works filled with tiny, meticulously drawn symbols and pseudo-letters, reflecting her ongoing exploration of chance and spontaneity in art.