Mimmo Paladino

MIMMO PALADINO (Paduli, Italy, 1948).
"Olympic centennial", 1992.
Silkscreen and collage on paper. Copy 84/250.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.
The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The chosen artists work in very diverse movements and styles, from the hyperrealism of Antonio Lopez to the abstraction of Sol Lewitt, through abstract expressionism, the geometrism of Arden Quin, conceptual art, pop art, the new realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, or the new fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented there are creators of great international renown, widely recognized by critics.
Paladino is one of the main exponents of the transvanguard, a movement founded by Achille Bonito Oliva in 1980, characterized by a return to painting, after the various conceptual and minimalist currents that developed in the seventies. His works are permanently exhibited in some of the major international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Tate and the Royal Academy in London, the Museum of Modern Irish Art in Dublin, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Kiasma in Helsinki, the Palazzo delle Arti in Naples and the MOCA in Shanghai. Lately there has been a show in Lima at the Luis Miró Quesasa Garland Gallery with 28 of his works.