Untitled

Untitled. Original color woodcut, 2002. Edition of 25 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.

  • Artist: Mimmo Paladino
  • Year: 2002
  • Edition size: edition 25
  • Dimensions: 39 x 34 cm

Description

Untitled. Original color woodcut, 2002. Edition of 25 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Mimmo Paladino is an Italian contemporary sculptor, painter, muralist and printmaker. He attended the Liceo Artistico di Benvenuto (Benevento Art School) from 1964 to 1968, when minimalism and conceptualism dominated the international art scene, which had effects on his art. He was also a part of Transavantgarde – the artistic movement with the neo-expressionist resurgence that swept through Italy in the 1980s. Paladino seeks his inspiration from both the ancient and the modern – from Egyptian, tribal, and classical artworks to the modern painting and sculpture. In his compositions we can often see a figure in combination with the signs like crosses, and techniques like the application of gold leafs, a symbol of eternity, borrowed from Christian iconography, as well as the hieratic pose of Byzantine figures and the gestural quality of that culture’s rites. A figure, precisely a head with androgynous character is in the center of the a large clock with Roman numerals, like we usually see on historic towers of fortress or squares in European cities, especially Italian. Nevertheless, there are some straight lines and numbers, and the head is skewed towards one of the lines so it seems like the head is showing the time.

Additional information

Weight 2 kg
Dimensions 50 × 10 cm
Artists

Mimmo Paladino