 Today, the MADI movement has over 60 members – painters, sculptors, architects and poets – working in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Japan, Argentina and the United States.One prominent figure behind this fifty years of artistic creation is Carmelo Arden Quin.The Madí Manifesto was created to defend the importance of invention in the light of limitations imposed on concrete art by the excessive rationalism of European concrete art.