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Mimmo Paladino

Born : 1948Documented citizenships : Italy

The Italian painter and sculptor Mimmo Paladino—whose name is Domenico Paladino—develops a practice that moves from painting to sculpture, installations and film. Born in Paduli in 1948, he spends his childhood in Naples, where his interest in art is shaped in part by the presence of an uncle who is a painter. From 1964 to 1969, he studies at the art high school in his hometown.

In 1977, Silenziozo, mi ritiro a dipingere marks the first appearance of the artist figure in his work; it appears alongside animal motifs and domestic objects. His practice brings together a range of materials and techniques, which he combines in compositions where the mixing can be taken very far. He juxtaposes disparate images and styles, often charged with mythical or symbolic resonances, and shows a predilection for the archaic. He works notably with bronze and ceramics; from 1985, he also creates large bronze sculptures and installations.

His participation in the Venice Biennale begins in 1980, in the Aperto 80 section. In 1982, he takes part in the Sydney Biennale, Zeitgeist in Berlin and documenta 7 in Kassel. In 1994, he exhibits at the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Beijing. The following year, as part of an exhibition organised in Naples, he installs a mountain of salt in Piazza del Plebiscito. In 1999, he presents the Dormienti cycle beneath the Roundhouse, in an exhibition organised by the South London Gallery. The Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato devotes a retrospective to him in 2002–2003.

In 2006, he makes Quijote, a film conceived around the work of Cervantes. In January 2008, a 90-metre-long fabric decorated with his paintings wraps around the Torre Ghirlandina in Modena during restoration work. He returns to the Venice Biennale in 2015 as part of the Italian Pavilion, where a space is dedicated to him.

This profile brings together identity references for Mimmo Paladino and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

44auction references

8auction houses

6documented results with prices

Dobiaschofsky · Sotheby’s · Kornfeld · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Germann · Schuler · Lempertz · Piguet

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.

Works recorded at auction

Photograph : Piguet · Enlarge image ↗

Piguet

"Actors VII"

technique mixte sur toile

Original catalogue wording

"Comediens VII"
technique mixte sur toile

Catalogue period : 2025-06-05 — 2025-06-18

Published result : 4300 CHF

Fees not specified in the available data

Estimate : CHF 8000–12000

Mimmo Paladino

Documented auction references

Works recorded at auction

"Actors VII"

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Allegretto

Untitled

Disegno all'ombra

Disegno all'ombra

Disegno all'ombra

Disegno all'ombra

Ohne Titel, um 1981

Il principio della prospettiva IV

Untitled

L'isola

Aus: Dipintini Semplici (Nr.10)

Death and the Maiden

Untitled, 1978

L'isola, 1981

Senza titolo, 2006

Untitled

Untitled, 1977

Blu Notturno, 1979

Untitled, 1981

La prima neve, 1980

Ohne Titel, 1981

Untitled, 1993

Untitled, 1978

Untitled, 1978

Untitled, 1993

Senza titolo (Stromboli), 1991

Senza titolo, 1977

Untitled, 1983

Achteckiges Blatt, teils gefaltet, 1976

Senza ragione, 1980

Tre pescatori minacciati da una stella cometa, 1981

Tre pescatori minacciati da una cometa, 1981

Senza titolo, 1977

Senza titolo, 1980

Untitled, 1993

Senza titolo, 1980

Untitled

"Senza titolo".

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