Denkweg. Il cammino di pensiero di mimmo paladino

Elio Cappuccio

pp. 33-41

in: Mimmo Paladino e la filosofia, Rivista di estetica 55, 2014.

Abstract

Mimmo Paladino’s artistic research is characterized by an interest in the language and the relationship between “individual” and “community”. The idea of “individual” Paladino focuses in his work on is placed in the Mediterranean culture, and carries with itself the request of social emancipation — that can be ascribable to some Marxist topics — and the faith in the magical power. Along this route Paladino meets Ernesto De Martino’s South and Magic, Marcel Mauss and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s works. With the same naturalness he makes coincide his sign with those of Matisse and Beuys, overlaps conceptually Spinoza to Jarry, Giordano Bruno to Beuys by getting the common trait in the transgressive dimension. It would be misleading trying to get a unitary route at all costs because only in the idea of the “encounter” apparently causal, that recalls the impracticable and audacious routes of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, we can get the meaning of the Paladino’s contaminations with philosophy.

Cited authors

Lévi-Strauss Claude

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Spinoza Baruch

Marx Karl

De Martino Ernesto

Mauss Marcel

Bruno Giordano

Paladino Mimmo