About this Work
About the Artist
Italian
b. 1948 Paduli (BN), ItalyMimmo Paladino is an Italian painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman from Paduli, northeast of Naples. He is affiliated with the Italian Transavanguardia movement and draws inspiration from both the ancient and the modern: from Egyptian, tribal, and classical images to Modernist painting and sculpture. His first solo exhibition was held in 1969 and he has since had numerous shows throughout the world. In 2002, a major retrospective entitled Transavanguardia 1979-1985 at Castello Di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, included works by Paladino along with those of Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Nicola de Maria. An important exhibition of his ceramics was held in the Museo MIC in Faenza, Italy, in 2012 and, in the same year, he designed an installation of a large marble cross in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. In 2016 He created a large-scale exhibition for Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a retrospective show at Galleria Stein, Milano.
b. 1948 Paduli (BN), ItalyMimmo Paladino is an Italian painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman from Paduli, northeast of Naples. He is affiliated with the Italian Transavanguardia movement and draws inspiration from both the ancient and the modern: from Egyptian, tribal, and classical images to Modernist painting and sculpture. His first solo exhibition was held in 1969 and he has since had numerous shows throughout the world. In 2002, a major retrospective entitled Transavanguardia 1979-1985 at Castello Di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, included works by Paladino along with those of Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Nicola de Maria. An important exhibition of his ceramics was held in the Museo MIC in Faenza, Italy, in 2012 and, in the same year, he designed an installation of a large marble cross in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. In 2016 He created a large-scale exhibition for Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a retrospective show at Galleria Stein, Milano.
