Dadamaino in her studio in via Boito, Milan, 1960 | © Maggiore g.a.m.
“Removing all the material down to the point where even parts of the frame become visible was meant to strip away everything that was materially layered on top of it, all the rhetoric, and return to a tabula rasa, to purity. Once this was done, it seemed spontaneous and natural to give an organization to this work, for example by making holes in a row rather than only instinctively"
- Jole de Sanna, interview with Dadamaino, Zero Italien. Azimuth/Azimut 1959–60 in Milan. And Today, exhibition catalogue, Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, December 3, 1995 – February 25, 1996, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1995.