Article of Paladino, Mimmo
Mimmo Paladino was born in 1948 in Paduli, Italy.
Paladino attended the Liceo Artistico of Benevento (Benevento Art High School) from 1964 to 1968, when minimalism and conceptualism dominated the international art scene. He played a leading part in the international revival of painting towards the end of the 1970s. His first work, in line with the prevailing conceptual climate at the time, showed an interest in photography, but in 1977 he had already moved on to the creation of two major tempera murals, one at the Toselli gallery in Milan and one at the Lucio Amelio gallery in Naples.
In the early 1980s, he began making his first sculptures. Exhibitions followed, one after the other, and in 1981 Paladino took part in 'A New Spirit in Painting', at the Royal Academy of Art in London, and the Paris Biennale.In the following year, 1982, he took part in the Sydney Biennial and the 'Documenta 7' in Kassel.
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