Opere di mimmo paladino biography

Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker

Mimmo Paladino (born in Paduli on 18 December 1948) is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker.

He is a leading name in the Transvanguardia artistic movement and one of the many European artists to revive Expressionism in the 1980s.^[1]

Biography

Paladino was born on 18 December 1948 in Paduli, Campania, but grew up and trained in Benevento, Italy.^{[citation needed]} From 1964 until 1968, he attended Liceo Artistico di Benevento.^[2]

He made his debut in 1968 with a solo exhibition at the Galleria Carolina in Portici in Naples.^{[citation needed]} Here he was presented by Achille Bonito Oliva, who was also present for the monographic show at Enzo Cannaviello's Studio Oggetto in Caserta the following year.

However, we need to go back to 1964 to find the first major date in his artistic education. This was when, still a schoolboy, he visited the 32nd Venice Biennale and, in pa