Mimmo Paladino is one of the central figures of the Italian Transavanguardia. Born in Paduli, near Benevento, in 1948, he developed a powerful language across painting, sculpture and printmaking, using archaic signs, mythological figures and symbolic forms to create images that feel both ancient and contemporary.
This tag brings together articles on Paladino’s work, his role in Italian postmodern painting, and his connection to artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Nicola De Maria. Rather than reading Paladino only as a painter of primitive or mythic signs, these texts explore how his work turns memory, ritual, the South and the archaic into a contemporary visual language.
Andrea Cusumano, Artistic Director of Gibellina, Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026 Andrea Cusumano discusses what Gibellina’s year as Italian Capital of Contemporary Art can leave behind: renewed spaces, lasting relationships, and a future beyond the celebration of its past.
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L'ozio di Sisifo – Sandro Chia How Transavanguardia turned the return to painting into a critical, visual, and market strategy for the 1980s. Transavanguardia is often
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Mimmo Paladino - Euclide Master of Multimedial Art and Universal Emotion Mimmo Paladino, a prominent figure in the contemporary art scene, has captivated audiences
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Enzo Cucchi, Untitled, 2008. Photo Omar Golli Enzo Cucchi is often described as one of the central figures of the Italian Transavanguardia. That is correct, but it
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Francesco Clemente - Summer Self II - 2011 - courtesy Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Roma How Francesco Clemente turned painting into a space of fragmented identity, spiritual tension and postmodern self-questioning. Francesco Clemente is often
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