In the history of art, Mimmo Paladino is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Mimmo Paladino as Italian painter (born 1948).
Mimmo Paladino was born at Paduli in 1948. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as painter, sculptor and illustrator.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
