Mimmo Paladino Art

MIMMO PALADINO - Etchings Woodcuts and Linocuts - 1983-1986 Waddington Galleries, London - Exhibition Catalogue. Copyright Waddington Graphics 1986. 1st Edition. Oblong soft cover ...

Etching realized by Mimmo Paladino in 2008, in occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 260. This work by is from the portfolio The Un...

Mixed media on paper and wood behind aryl glass Mimmo Paladino, Italy 2009 (2/20) Mimmo Paladino found art inspired by his uncle, a painter who introduced him to traditional techniques at an early age. After attending the 1964 Venice Biennale, he made the decision to become an artist. He studied painting at the Liceo Artistico in Benevento from 1964 to 1968 and, influenced by Max Ernst and Paul Klee, experimented with collages, frottages and non-objective paintings. 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 themes, such as the Icarus myth, which he translated into drawings. In the process, Paladino developed his own fresco-like technique, significant for his later work, in which he painted large-scale walls with pastel colors. Paladino had his first exhibition in 1977 at the "Galerie Lucio Amelio" in Naples. Several trips to Milan as well as contact with the art critic Tommaso Trini and the gallery owner Franco Toselli soon made Paladino known nationwide. In Toselli's gallery he presented his murals for the first time in 1978. That same year he traveled to New York, where he met Sandro Chia and Francesco Clemente. Several trips to Brazil followed. In 1980 Mimmo Paladino, together with the publisher Emilio Mazzoli, published a book with texts by Achille Bonito Oliva. The art critic Oliva had introduced the term Transavanguardia at the end of the 1970s for the style of the new movement, mainly characterized by young Italian artists such as Chia, Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Paladino, who found parallels in Germany with the Neue Wilde. In the same year Paladino participated in the Aperto 80 Biennale in Venice and in 1982 in the Biennale of Sydney. In the following years Paladino had exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum in Basel and at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. In 1999 he had an extensive retrospective at the Lenbachhaus in Munich and in the same year he 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.[1] 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. PLANT Mimmo Paladino's works are often mixed media on paper or wood pre-sketched with drawing pencil, using all traditional means. His oeuvre includes watercolor, oil painting, and tempera, as well as collage, frottage, engraving, drypoint, or woodcut. Paladino's paintings 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 covered with ceramic plates on the beach of Lampedusa in memory of the migrants who lost their lives at sea EXHIBITIONS 1979: Transavanguardia, Turin 1980: Venice Biennale, Venice 1982: documenta 7, Kassel 1982: Biennale of Sydney, Sydney 1984: Merianpark, Basel, sculpture in the 20th century...

Senza Titolo Mosaico is a 2010 lithograph with mosaic elements by Mimmo Paladino. Senza Titolo Mosaico is from an edition of 25 plus artist and printers proofs. Senza Titolo is signe...

"Scacco al Re" it is an Artist Proof by Mimmo Paladino. It is a furniture with a superb combination of wood and mosaic of great graphic purity. Primitive figures...

Artist: Mimmo Paladino, Italian (1948 - ) Title: Lacrimose Portfolio Year: 1986 Medium: Portfolio of Twelve Woodcuts, Each signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 18/42 Size: 31 x 21 ...

A portfolio of 12 prints using various printmaking techniques illustrating the story of Pinocchio, by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino. The portfolio is in its original wooden case wit...

Four-door sideboard in matt lacquered wood with printed figures by Mimmo Paladino on three sides. A vortex-sculpture in metal fixed on the surface with three hanging ceramic cups bea...

The limited edition cabinet designed by Mimmo Paladino is entirly covered in a layer of gold leaf and then decorated by hand with various designs in black and white by the author. Th...

I volti, quattro is a Limited Edition three-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” crea...

I volti, tre is a Limited Edition two-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” created by...

I volti, quattro is a Limited Edition three-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” crea...

I volti, uno is a Limited Edition seven-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” created ...

I volti, tre is a Limited Edition two-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” created by...

I volti, cinque is a Limited Edition four-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” create...

I volti, due is a Limited Edition six-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” created by...

I volti, sei is a Limited Edition nine-colour silkscreen print. The series of prints entitled “I Volti” is inspired by the video “Giocosa Mente”, “a work for moving images” created b...

A set of three monumental etchings by Italian contemporary artist, Mimmo Paladino. Each nicely framed in black. Artist: Mimmo Paladino Title: Si...

Hand signed etching, 2008 Dimensions: 94,5 x 70 cm This work by is from the portfolio The Unique Collection for the Olympic Fine Arts 2008 presented during the Olympic Games and pro...

Attori is a 2010 color woodcut by Mimmo Paladino. Attori is from an edition of 100 plus artist and printers proofs. Attori is signed by Paladino.

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Atlantico VI (Skeleton) is a 1987 linoleum block print by Mimmo Paladino from the rare series of seven graphically charged prints, entitled Atlanico. Altanico VI is from an edition o...

Atlantico IV (Large Figure with Mask) is a 1987 linoleum block print by Mimmo Paladino from the rare series of seven graphically charged prints, entitled Atlanico. Altanico IV is fro...

Atlantico V (Rectangular Grid with Figures) is a 1987 linoleum block print by Mimmo Paladino from the rare series of seven graphically charged prints, entitled Atlanico. Altanico V i...

Shield 3 is 1999 serigraph and etching by Mimmo Paladino. Shield 3 is from an edition of 20 plus artist and printers proofs. The work is signed in graphite by Paladino. The Italian a...

Shield 1 is 1999 serigraph and etching by Mimmo Paladino. Shield 1 is from an edition of 20 plus artist and printers proofs. The work is signed in graphite by Paladino. The Italian a...

Come in uno Specchio is a 1989 lithograph. Come in uno Specchio is from an edition 65 plus artist and printers proofs. Come in uno Specchio is signed by Paladino.

Original color woodcut, 1992. Edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Mimmo Paladino is an Italian contemporary sculptor, painter, muralist and printmaker. He attended the Liceo Artistico di Benvenuto (Benevento Art School) from 1964 to 1968, when minimalism and conceptualism dominated the international art scene, which had effects on his art. He was also a part of Transavantgarde – the artistic movement with the neo-expressionist resurgence that swept through Italy in the 1980s. Paladino seeks his inspiration from both the ancient and the modern – from Egyptian, tribal, and classical artworks to the modern painting and sculpture. In his compositions we can often see a figure in combination with the signs like crosses, and techniques like the application of gold leaves, a symbol of eternity, borrowed from Christian iconography, as well as the hieratic pose of Byzantine figures and the gestural quality of that culture’s rites. Paladino himself admits to being “an artist of the south, but of the darkest, most mysterious south, and this is why I find poetic sensations that belong to me in certain aspects of Nordic culture, why I can make a totally black painting...

Artist: Mimmo Paladino, Italian (1948 - ) Title: Muto Year: 1984 Medium: Etching and aquatint in colors with mink fur collage, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 17/35 Size: 60.5...