Mimmo Paladino
BIO
Mimmo Paladino was born in Paduli, in southern Italy, in 1948. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Benevento in the late 1960s, when the art scene was dominated by the trends of minimalism and conceptualism.
Yet Paladino made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s by breaking away from those styles, and putting his energy toward expressive art that merged images from Christianity and classical Greek mythology with tribal and modern art. This new movement, which Paladino helped lead, was called the ‘Transavanguardia,’ or, ‘beyond the avant-garde.’
Paladino’s work can be found in museums and public collections around the world. Some of these include the City of Beijing Collection, Beijing, China; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts; the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf, Germany; the Berardo Collection in Sintra, Portugal; the Tate Gallery in London, England; and the Setagaya Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
ART
Mimmo Paladino is inspired by the art and artifacts of diverse cultures. He combines images drawn from mathematics, science and art, with ancient signs and symbols to create works of art that appear dreamlike and ambiguous. In Zenit, (or Zenith in English), Paladino has created a bronze sculpture of an elegant riderless horse. A geometric form that mathematicians call a stellated dodecahedron (a star-shaped form with twelve faces) appears to balance on one of its points on the horse’s back.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Zenit, 1999
Bronze and Aluminum
197″ x 47″ x 177″
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Scarecrow, 2006 Tom Claassen
Untitled (Two Rabbits), 2004 Jonathan Clarke
Lifestyle, 2006 Niki de Saint Phalle
Adam & Eve, 1985-1989 Jim Dine
Big White Gloves, Big Four Wheels, 2008 Mark di Suvero
Aesop’s Fables, 1990 Jean-Michel Folon
Voyage, 1999 Laura Ford
Bird, 2007 Keith Haring
Untitled (Ringed Figure), 1987 Käi
Love Vs. Money, 2017 Fernand Léger
Femmes Au Perroquet, 1952 Aristide Maillol
La Riviere, 1938 – 1943 Ju Ming
Tai Chi Singlewhip, 1998 Igor Mitoraj
Eros Bendato, 1999 Julian Opie
Kiera & Julian Walking, 2002
Bruce & Sara Walking, 2007 Tom Otterness
Kindly Geppetto, 2001 Mimmo Paladino
Zenit, 1999 Martin Puryear
Untitled (Bench), 2008 George Rickey
Four Rectangles Oblique, 1979 Tony Smith
Night, 1962 Bernar Venet
2 Arcs X 4, 230.5 Degree, Arc X 5, 1999-2000 Erwin Wurm
Big Suit, 2010 Kan Yasuda
Door of Return, 2001 Jack Youngerman
Samarkand, 1981