When Carmelo Arden Quin (b. 1913, Uruguay) and artists Gyula Kosice, Rhod Rothfuss, and Tomás Maldonado produced the single-issue art and literary magazine Arturo in 1944, they articulated a desire shared by many young artists in Buenos Aires: to create a movement that would break free from the visual traditions of the past and move away from the “fictions” of representation. In manifestoes, poems, essays, and images, the magazine’s contributors described an abstract art for a new age. Arturo’s authors would go on to launch several abstract art movements in Argentina, including the Asociación de Arte Concreto-Invención and Perceptismo. And, shortly after Arturo appeared, Arden Quin co-founded the Madí group.
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