Mimmo (Domenico), Palladino (1948)

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In 16 years at the Venice Biennale, he became acquainted with the works of Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine, who made a tremendous impression on him. His first independent works date back to 1970, he first engaged in abstract painting. In his early works he used a photograph, they markedly silnoe influence of conceptual art. Criticism of their Streten very well, but the artist himself considered them unsatisfactory.

Gradually, his works become more figurative: he belongs more to syncretism: along with the inspiration that he draws on the works of artists of European avant-garde 1910-20 gg., He willingly turns to mythological and esoteric traditions, depicts a strange beast, a hybrid creature, emaciated body ... Recurrence of his subjects - skeletons, skulls, as if the artist was playing with death, mocked her.
Gradually, the artist has developed a kind of a personal system, which is devoid of mysticism, it is rather a modern myth-making.