Mimmo Paladino is not a new presence in Parma, a city that also boasts his works in the CSAC collections and in the Teatro Regio, for which the artist created a curtain in 2021. The relationship with the world of theater and in particular with the president of the Teatro Due Foundation, Oberdan Forlenza, who during a presentation to the public retraced the various collaborations with the artist, including the Salt mountainstaged in Naples in 1995 and which derived precisely from a theatrical intervention.
Paladino’s stained glass windows for the Teatro Due
The two large windows that “colour” the stairs of Teatro Due are brand new thanks to the passage of light through the colorful composition. Emblematically the work, commissioned by the Regio Teatro Festival, is entitled The Playwrights and if the technique and purpose recalls primarily the figured stained glass windows of medieval origin, also taken up by artists of the early twentieth century such as Henri Matisse and George Rouaultthe figurative references are inspired by the playwrights who have most influenced them Mimmo Paladinofrom Samuel Beckett to Carlo Goldoni, from Eduardo de Filippo to Carmelo Bene, from Euripides to Bertold Brecht.
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The references in Mimmo Paladino’s mosaic
Portraits accompanied by their respective names, masks, stylizations of characters and other evocative figures compose an evocative mosaic of the thousand-year history of the theater and document how the artist is capable of adopting different languages and techniques, while always inserting himself into the privileged context of the Transavantgarde.
Marta Santacatterina
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