Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics
Mimmo Paladino
Italian, born 1948
1983
A lithograph poster by Mimmo Paladino for the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics that transforms an event advertisement into a spare, poetic image using handlike, painterly forms.
A large, cropped black head looms at the top while a lightly sketched, reclining figure drifts amid torn, deep‑purple shards on a pale gray field, producing a dreamlike, suspended tension between figuration and abstract, ice‑like shapes.
By commissioning a contemporary Neo‑Expressionist, this poster blurred fine art and graphic design—bringing symbolic, painterly imagery into public commissions and widening the vocabulary of civic visual culture.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
33 1/2 × 24 1/4" (85.1 × 61.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Krešimir Penović
Accession
200.2016.14
Palette
Art Terms
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