{"id":15528,"date":"2025-12-06T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villaorsini.it\/senza-categoria\/mimmo-paladinos-works-at-villa-orsini\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:46:14","slug":"mimmo-paladinos-works-at-villa-orsini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villaorsini.it\/en\/news-en\/mimmo-paladinos-works-at-villa-orsini\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimmo Paladino&#8217;s works at Villa Orsini"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15528\" class=\"elementor elementor-15528 elementor-15121\" 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data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cb01162 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cb01162\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ea5fc8\" data-id=\"2ea5fc8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22b12cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"22b12cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cMimmo Paladino\u201d exhibition at Villa Orsini<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-856f5e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"856f5e6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78b33a3\" data-id=\"78b33a3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67c3698 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67c3698\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"it-IT\"><i>Vernissage \u2013 December 5, 7:00 p.m.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c632d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8c632d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On December 5, Villa Orsini opened its halls and gardens to a new chapter in its history: an exhibition by Mimmo Paladino, an event that officially marks the debut of works by the master of the Transavantgarde on the estate, transforming the villa into a true journey through contemporary art\u2014both outdoors and indoors.<\/p><p>Just as with the major art events hosted here in the past\u2014during which the villa successfully combined sculpture, painting, and haute cuisine into a single cultural experience\u2014this exhibition, too, was conceived to foster a dialogue between creativity and the Irpinia landscape, featuring many distinguished guests, including the current Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d77503d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d77503d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f244a0\" data-id=\"0f244a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0185edf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0185edf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Contents<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9f05f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f9f05f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><a href=\"#eleganza_successo\">Mimmo Paladino: the voice of the south in the Transavantgarde<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#vertice\">The exhibition at Villa Orsini: sculptures as presences, not as objects<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#suite\">Figures, masks, horses: the story told through the interiors<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#carro_busto\">The catalogue: a guide to the exhibition<br><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#gala\">Gala evening at Orsini MOOD<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#expertise\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">A new chapter for Villa Orsini<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-806a633 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"806a633\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5979b28\" data-id=\"5979b28\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49fc22f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49fc22f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 id=\"eleganza_successo\">Mimmo Paladino: the voice of the south in the Transavantgarde<\/h4><p>Domenico \u201cMimmo\u201d Paladino, born in Paduli (Benevento) in 1948, is one of the leading figures of the Italian Transavantgarde, the movement theorised by Achille Bonito Oliva which, from the 1980s onwards, brought painting and the image back to the forefront following periods of more strictly conceptual art.<\/p><p>The following elements are constantly interwoven in his work:<\/p><ul><li>references to Greco-Roman, Etruscan and early Christian classical traditions;<\/li><li>archaic symbols: masks, horses, totemic figures, enigmatic faces;<\/li><li>deeply Mediterranean roots, linked to the landscape of the Sannio and Southern Italy.<\/li><\/ul><p>Critics and scholars have often described Paladino as an \u2018oak\u2019 deeply rooted in his homeland: an artist capable of absorbing distant memories, myths and fragments of history, and transforming them into new, essential images, brimming with energy and mystery.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-02b4a94 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"02b4a94\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1feea13\" data-id=\"1feea13\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8f8b4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8f8b4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 id=\"vertice\">The exhibition at Villa Orsini: sculptures as presences, not as objects<\/h4>\nThe exhibition at Villa Orsini stems from a specific concept: not simply to place works of art within an evocative setting, but to ensure that Paladino \u2018inhabits\u2019 the villa, both outside and inside, as if his sculptures were an integral part of the place.\n\nThe residence \u2013 built on the site of a Roman domus dating from the time of Hadrian and reinterpreted in the 18th century by the Vanvitellian school \u2013 is, by its very nature, a meeting point between different eras. Historic architecture, the Irpinia landscape and contemporary art overlap, brush against one another and echo one another. \n\nIn the large park, amongst the avenues, flowerbeds and views of the hills, Paladino\u2019s sculptures almost blend in as if they were natural features:\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Untitled (Three Spheres)<\/strong>, 1989 \u2013 three large bronze spheres emerge from the lawn like ancient stones. Their metallic surfaces capture the daylight, reflecting it back in warm hues at sunset, and are veiled in soft shadows in the evening: they seem to emerge from a distant past, in dialogue with the greenery that surrounds them. <\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Untitled (R.E.S. 1\/2\/3), 1987<\/strong> \u2013 three vertical elements made of shaped steel, resembling crosses or mysterious alphabets, transform a portico into a veritable \u2018place of signs\u2019. The architectural structure becomes a stage for these subtle presences, halfway between totems and writing, as if an ancient language had materialised within the space. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe exhibition layout invites visitors to view these works not merely as objects on display, but as figures that listen: sculptures that \u201cglisten in the sun, mysterious in the moonlight\u201d, rooted in the villa\u2019s greenery like a group of silent witnesses to the passage of time, ready to preserve and bring to life stories, memories and visions.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b805055 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"b805055\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0925800\" data-id=\"0925800\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8de388d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8de388d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 id=\"suite\"> Figures, masks, horses: the story told through the interiors<\/h4>\nInside Villa Orsini, the exhibition layout centres on a core of medium- and large-scale bronze sculptures, which occupy the halls, loggias and corridors, establishing a close dialogue with the arches, marble floors and perspective backdrops.\n\nAmong the sculptural works, *Torso* (1993, bronze, 151 \u00d7 62.2 \u00d7 38 cm) represents one of the iconographic cornerstones of the exhibition: a totemic figure, standing perfectly upright, hollow at the centre, within which a second body is modelled. The \u2018body-within-a-body\u2019 concept visually embodies, in formal terms, the themes of generation, embodied memory and the stratification of time that run through Paladino\u2019s entire body of work. \n\nTestimone (Figure with a Horned Animal) (1997, bronze, 168 \u00d7 58 \u00d7 55 cm) emphasises frontality and solemnity: the cylindrical torso, the raised hands, and the totemic animal leaning against the figure create an almost liturgical composition. The engravings on the back and arms refer to a system of \u2018necessary\u2019, non-ornamental signs that transform the surface into a sort of archaic script. \n\nCon Cavallo (2000, bronze, 218 \u00d7 103.5 \u00d7 50.5 cm), verticality is pushed to the limit: the animal, extremely elongated and devoid of any naturalistic detail, is set upon a compact, intricately worked plinth. The disproportionate relationship between the horse and the base, the slender legs and the highly textured patina accentuate the enigmatic nature of the subject and strip it of any vestiges of classical monumentality. <span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-line: initial;\"> <\/span>\n\nThe sculptural vocabulary is then articulated through a constellation of object-sculptures that explore the motifs of the house, the threshold, the bell and the head:\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Untitled<\/strong> <strong>(House with a Golden Mask)<\/strong> (1992, bronze, 73.3 \u00d7 101 \u00d7 15.9 cm) features an architectural form reduced to its essentials, in which a cavity opens up from which a golden mask emerges. The mask functions as the point from which the face emerges \u2013 a threshold between the interior and the exterior. <\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Fluid Dream<\/strong> (1985, bronze, 215.9 \u00d7 48.3 \u00d7 73.7 cm) evokes an almost \u2018vegetal\u2019 verticality, with a slender stem rising from a strongly projecting base, populated by semi-figurative forms: a flow of matter that coalesces into images only in fragments.<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Study for Sud II (The Door)<\/strong> (1993, bronze, 62 \u00d7 37.5 \u00d7 24 cm) and <strong>Untitled (Head and Doors on a Panel)<\/strong> (1993, bronze and steel, 200 \u00d7 60 \u00d7 34 cm) explore the theme of the door as a means of passage: panels and jambs feature figures in relief, heads, plant motifs and anthropomorphic elements; the doorway is both architectural and symbolic.<\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Untitled (Cart with Bell)<\/strong> (1990, bronze, 43.5 \u00d7 33.3 \u00d7 14.6 cm) and <strong>Untitled (Head on a Pole)<\/strong> (1989, bronze, 194 \u00d7 42 \u00d7 76 cm) respectively place the motif of the bell and that of the archaic head on supports that emphasise their function as signals and \u2018sentinels\u2019 within the exhibition space.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThis three-dimensional sculptural installation is complemented by a body of paintings and mixed-media works which, in a two-dimensional context, elucidate the same repertoire of signs.\n\n<strong>The Breath of Beauty VIII<\/strong> (1991, oil on panel with relief silhouette, 205 \u00d7 205 \u00d7 30 cm) is a large polyptych: a background of flat, intensely saturated colours (red, green, light blue) is traversed by a vertical relief silhouette, covered with a pattern of leaves and marks.\n\nThe following also belong to the realm between figure and icon:\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Untitled<\/strong> (1989, mixed media and collage on cardboard, 102 \u00d7 72 cm), in which a figure facing the viewer, with a green face, stands out against a solid colour scheme, defined by distinct areas;<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Tana<\/strong> (1993, oil on canvas in a wooden box, 67 \u00d7 57 \u00d7 8 cm), in which the painting is set within a containing structure, almost like a domestic reliquary;<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Untitled<\/strong> (1997, mixed media on panel with copper frame, 41.3 \u00d7 31.1 cm), in which the metal frame forms part of the composition;<\/li>\n \t<li>the series of large panels <strong>Alcaeus, Sappho, Solon, Ibycus, Anacreon<\/strong> (all 1990, mixed media, 218.5 \u00d7 157 \u00d7 157 cm), which projects onto the world of the Greek lyric poets a visual grammar composed of primary colour fields, outlines, and fragments of bodies and objects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFor those walking through the interior of Villa Orsini, the exhibition unfolds as a veritable \u2018stroll through symbols\u2019: bells, heads, sleeping figures, horses, masks, doors and alphabets of signs which, work by work, weave a cohesive visual narrative on the relationship between humankind, time and myth.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-373c2f0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"373c2f0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c5bf851\" data-id=\"c5bf851\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e7e0cbb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e7e0cbb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 id=\"carro_busto\">The catalogue: a guide to the exhibition<\/h4><p>The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, in Italian and English, conceived as a critical tool rather than merely a photographic compendium. The volume opens with an essay by Silvia Guastalla, <em>A Link in a Chain Connecting the Past to the Future<\/em>, which precisely defines the interpretative framework within which Paladino\u2019s presence at Villa Orsini should be situated. <\/p><p>The text focuses on three conceptual themes:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Geographical and cultural context<\/strong>: Paladino is identified as an \u2018artist of the South\u2019, a product of a multi-layered Mediterranean heritage \u2013 ranging from the Etruscan and Greek worlds to the Lombards and Normans \u2013 in which the landscape is interwoven with ruins and archaeological remains. This dimension of a \u2018veiled and mysterious South\u2019 is cited as the primary source of his visual culture. <\/li><li><strong>Stratification as a method<\/strong>: the notion of stratification \u2013 walls built from ruins of different eras, fragments of Roman heads embedded in older blocks \u2013 becomes the key to understanding the coexistence of figuration, abstraction, decorative elements and minimal signs in the artist\u2019s work. The image is understood as the emergence of a fragment from a profound visual process, in which the most arcane signs surface whilst the most obvious appearances recede into the background. <\/li><li><strong>Parallels between Villa Orsini and Paladino\u2019s artistic vision<\/strong>: the villa, built on the site of a Roman domus dating from the Hadrianic period and rebuilt in the 18th century in the Vanvitellian style, is seen as a place where history and architecture have become intertwined, perfectly in keeping with the logic of a \u2018collage of eras\u2019 that underpins the artist\u2019s work. From this perspective, the placement of the sculptures in the park is interpreted as the natural outcome of a process of mutual recognition between the site and the artwork. <\/li><\/ul><p>For visitors to the opening, the book serves as a veritable \u2018critical prosthesis\u2019 for the exhibition: a reference guide for identifying techniques and dimensions, a collection of high-definition images and, at the same time, an interpretative essay that links the site\u2019s past, Paladino\u2019s visual biography and his current presence in the villa into a single narrative.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c904e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c904e3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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gardens<\/strong>: the illuminated fa\u00e7ade, the fountains in operation, the park serving as a natural gateway to the sculpture trail;<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>a presentation of the exhibition<\/strong> <strong>and the exhibition project<\/strong>, with an introductory segment focusing on Mimmo Paladino\u2019s research and the relationship between his works and the history of the site;<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>a guided tour of the indoor and outdoor areas<\/strong>, offering a close-up view of the sculptures and works on wood, following the thread of recurring motifs \u2013 masks, doors, horses and symbolic figures;<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>a convivial occasion<\/strong>, in keeping with the finest traditions of Villa Orsini: tastings prepared by the villa\u2019s chefs and glasses of local wines, selected from the villa\u2019s historic cellars.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>Following on from the previous \u2018art evenings\u2019, which transformed the residence into a veritable cultural salon 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