Carro dormente, 1987
From For Joseph Beuys
Printed folder with one woodcut, 80.5 x 60.5 cm and one lithograph, 80 x 60 cm, both on Hosokawa Japanese paper, in a linocut printed folder of Arches rag paper. Edition: 90 + XXX (+ 10 A.P.), signed and numbered on woodcut.
Mimmo Paladino’s edition for the group portfolio For Joseph Beuys serves as a poetic homage to the German artist. True to Paladino’s signature style, the works are steeped in symbolism and ambiguity. The red lithograph offers a minimalist, almost totemic form – abstract yet evocative – while the black woodcut presents a more figurative composition, rich in gestural lines and ritualistic resonance. Together, the prints convey a tension between presence and absence, form and myth, abstraction and figuration. Referencing themes of death, transformation, and spiritual legacy, Carro dormente (“Sleeping Cart”) becomes a quietly powerful meditation on memory and artistic inheritance – deeply personal, yet open to interpretation.
