is one of the main members of the Trans, the movement founded by Achille Bonito Oliva in 1980 will provide a return to painting, after the various conceptual currents in the seventies.
His works are on permanent display in some of the major international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
He held his first solo show in Caserta in 1969. In 1978 in New York where he exhibited in the following year at the Marian Goodman Gallery and the Gallery Annina Nosei.
Born December 18, 1948 in Paduli province of Benevento.
In 1980 he participated in his first Venice Biennale, invited by Achille Bonito Oliva in the Open 80, along with Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Nicola De Maria. In 1980 he was selected by the National Art Library Bolaffi (No. 15) together with Giulio Paolini, Valerio Adami, Lucio Bulgarelli, Gianfranco Goberti and Cassano.
In 1985, the Monaco of Bavaria Lenbachhaus organized his first retrospective in a public space. In 1988 he was invited with a solo show at the Venice Biennale. In 1990
realizes, at the headquarters of the Foundation of Orestiadi Gibellina, the "Mountain of salt." In 1991 he took part in a major exhibition in Prague for the opening of the Royal Castle, recently restored. In 1992 the Hortus Conclusus in Benevento. In 1994, the first contemporary Italian artist to hold an exhibition in China, the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Beijing. In 1995 Naples dedicated a major exhibition in three locations: Royal palace, Villa Pignatelli Cortes and Piazza del Plebiscite where he made his memorable mountain of salt.
In 1999 the South London Gallery is organizing a large exhibition in which it is exposed, the Roundhouse in the grand cycle of sleeping, in the same year the Royal Academy in London award him the title of Honorary Member.
In 2006 he designed and produced the film Quijote, which was attended among others Peppe Servillo (Avion Travel), Lucio Dalla, Alexander Berger, Enzo Cucchi.Inoltre was the author of a redevelopment of the Piazza dei Guidi in Vinci (FI) , thus interpreting in his own way his unique style.
In 2008 he was assigned to Fighter's controversial construction of 4 sheets to cover the scaffolding for the restoration of the bell tower of the Cathedral of Modena said Ghirlandina. The work will be visible for the duration of the work should be completed in 2010.
be mentioned; exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna and the Royal Academy in London and the retrospective exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in 2002-2003.
He has always loved working alongside poets and musicians like Joseph Conte, Edoardo Sanguineti, Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Brian Eno, Raffaele La Capria, Roberto Alajmo and with them has produced art books and artistic events.
From June to November 2008 was held at Villa Pisani at Stra (Venezia), an exhibition which also includes some new works created by the artist specifically for this space.
On June 28, 2008, under the "Porta di Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe" organized by Amani and Alternative Youth, was inaugurated on the island of Lampedusa realized by a monument dedicated to the memory of the migrants who have died in sea.
In 2009 a group of his sculptures is exposed, "en plein air, in Orta San Giulio, Lake Orta, in an exhibition curated by Flavio Arensi; among the various works a horse float to the shore in front of Villa Bossi , the town hall. The book (& Allemandi C., texts and Flavio Arensi Goffedo Fofi) related to the exhibition contains 48 original and previously unpublished photos of Gianni Berengo Gardin, the famous photographer has made a series of portraits Paladino and his works located in Orta San Giulio. One of sculure "fell to the right" is located on the island of San Giulio with the help of a helicopter.
Here are three of the works of this artist.