From june 2 to november 2, 2008

The exhibition Mimmo Paladino at Villa Pisani is set in the magnificent Villa and in the garden, which will be a sort of prestigious stage for the sculptures and paintings of the Italian artist, along a magnificent tour showing the most charming corners of Villa Pisani, from Tiepolo’s room, to the Stables, from the Orangery to the Coffee House and to the wonderful Maze of hedges, one of the few still preserved in Europe.
The artist planned a tour with more than seventy masterpieces, from the well-known “Dormienti ai Sette Scudi”, from the tower in terra cotta, to the statues exhibited at the MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) in Rovereto, besides those expressly developed for this exhibition. He is the author of the famous salt mountain in Plebiscito Square in Naples, of the mosaic for Ara Pacis in Rome and of the permanent installation at the Hortus Conclusus in Benevento, where his works combine in a harmonic contraposition with fragments of Roman columns, capitals and broken gables. In his thirty-year career Paladino developed a timeless sign language, able to have a profound contact with the heritage of the past. Horses in essential stark lines, human shapes waiting, details suggesting cultures and environments of the most ancient and profound Italic civilization, form the lexicon of his works used by the artist to enhance the mysterious and charming atmosphere of the baroque garden of Villa Pisani.