Mimmo Paladino

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Mimmo Paladino at the opening of the Piazza dei Conti Guidi in Vinci, 2006

Mimmo Paladino (born December 18, 1948 in Paduli , Benevento province ; actually Domenico Paladino ) is a contemporary Italian painter and object artist . Along with Sandro Chia , Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi, Paladino is one of the representatives of the Italian Transavantgarde ( Italian : Transavanguardia ).

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Architettura , bronze 2005, exhibited in “Blickachsen 7”, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 2009

Mimmo Paladino found art inspired by his uncle, a painter who introduced him to traditional techniques at an early age. After 1964, the Biennale in Venice had visited, he made the decision to become an artist. From 1964 to 1968 he studied painting at the Liceo Artistico in Benevento and, influenced by Max Ernst and Paul Klee , experimented with collages , frottages and non-representational pictures. In 1968 he finished his academic training with a diploma and began to paint freely.

In the early to mid-1970s, the artist dealt almost exclusively with mythological topics, such as the Icarus myth, which he translated into drawings. Paladino developed his own fresco-like technique, which was significant for his later work , in which he painted large walls with pastel colors . Paladino had his first exhibition in 1977 in the " Galerie Lucio Amelio " in Naples . Several trips to Milan as well as the contact with the art critic Tommaso Trini and the gallery owner Franco Toselli soon made Paladino known nationwide. In 1978 he presented his wall paintings for the first time in Toselli's gallery . In the same year he traveled to New York , where he met Sandro Chia and Francesco Clemente . Several trips to Brazil followed .

In 1980 Mimmo Paladino and the publisher Emilio Mazzoli brought out a book with texts by Achille Bonito Oliva . At the end of the 1970s, the art critic Oliva introduced the term Transavanguardia for the style of the new movement, mainly shaped by young Italian artists such as Chia, Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Paladino, which finds parallels in Germany with the Neue Wilden . In the same year Paladino took part in the Aperto 80 Biennale in Venice and in 1982 in the Biennale of Sydney . In the following years Paladino had exhibitions in the art museum in Basel and in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna . In 1999 he had an extensive retrospective at the Lenbachhaus in Munich and in the same year became an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato dedicated an extensive retrospective to him in 2002/2003. Works by Mimmo Paladino can be found in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The artist lives and works in Milan and Benevento, Italy.

The Campanile of Modena Cathedral , clad by Mimmo Paladino, 2008

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Mimmo Paladino's works are often mixed media sketched in pencil on paper or wood, using all traditional means. His oeuvre includes watercolor , oil painting and tempera as well as collages, frottages, engravings , drypoint and woodcuts . Paladino's pictures are often untitled.

Examples

  • 1987: The Perfect Room
  • 1992: hortus conclusus , horse sculpture in Benevento , Chiostro di San Domenico
  • 1993: montagna bianca
  • 2002: Le chien
  • 2004: ciclismo
  • 2008: Porta di Lampedusa - Porta d'Europa , iron sculpture clad with ceramic plates on the beach in Lampedusa in memory of the migrants who lost their lives at sea

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

literature

  • Wieland Schmied : Presence and Eternity. Traces of the transcendent in the art of our time . Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin 7 April to 24 June 1990, Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-89322-179-4 .
  • James Joyce: Ulysses. Preface by Stephen James Joyce, Introduction by Jacques Aubert, with etchings by Mimmo Paldino . The Folio Society, London 1998.
  • Mimmo Paladino: Paladino: A Monograph . Edizioni Charter, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-8158-290-2 .
  • Enzo Di Martino, Mimmo Paladino, Klaus Albrecht Schroder: Mimmo Paladino: Graphic Work 1974 # 2001 . Rizzoli International Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-8478-2417-9 .
  • Cinzia Sarni: Mimmo Paladino. Feminae . Edizioni Grafica Giorgio Upiglio, Milan 2003
  • James Joyce , Mimmo Paladino, Klaus Reichert : Ulysses. Texts and pictures . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-458-19255-7 .
  • Eleonora Louis: Mimmo Paladino . Provincial Library, Weitra 2005, ISBN 3-85252-694-9 .

Web links

Commons : Mimmo Paladino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Biografia Mimmo Paladino. Retrieved September 28, 2012 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 215 .
personal data
SURNAME Paladino, Mimmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paladino, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter of the transavant-garde
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Paduli , Benevento Province