November 9 – November 23, 2024

Mimmo Paladino

Mixografia

In Person Viewing:

1419 East Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90011

Online Viewing:
https://mixografia.com/events/mimmo-paladino-prints/

Saturday, November 9th, 4 – 6PM

Mixografía is excited to announce a solo exhibition by the Italian artist Mimmo Paladino (b. 1948). The exhibition features the series, “California Suite” (2004), as well as the monumental print, “Untitled” (2009).

Mimmo Paladino was one of the leading figures in the Italian Transavanguardia movement in the late 1970s and 1980s, along with notable painters such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, and Nicolo de Maria. Transavanguardia (or Transavantgarde in English) is the Italian equivalent of the American Neo-Expressionism art movement. The Italian movement comprised of a group of painters who sought to distance themselves from the cold orthodoxy of conceptual abstraction that dominated art at the time. It was a desire to return to figuration, mythic imagery, and symbolism in painting, which had been mostly abandoned by other contemporaneous art movements following World War II. These artists focused on traditional themes like human emotion, nature, and the universality of symbols, especially those implemented in ritualistic practices.