Bosforo

Mimmo Paladino

(1982, published 1983)

A sheet from Bosforo, one of six prints in a portfolio where Mimmo Paladino uses woodcut and linoleum cut with collage to compress archaic, mythic imagery into flat, tactile color surfaces that feel like fragments of an imagined landscape.

You first notice a broad, even field of warm rose—its paper texture, tiny marks, and the small printed label at the lower right interrupting the silence—creating a restrained, almost meditative presence.

Made during the early 1980s Transavanguardia moment, these prints show how Paladino reinvigorated traditional printmaking to reintroduce myth, materiality, and symbolic presence into late‑twentieth‑century art, bridging abstraction and renewed figuration.

Palette

Art Terms

Linoleum cut Woodcut Collage Print Relief print Postmodernism Figurative

Exhibitions

New Work on Paper 2: Borofsky, Clemente, Merz, Penck, Penone

1982

Italy: The New Domestic Landscape

1972

Twentieth Century Italian Art

1949

Homers

1973