The Pane e Oro Exhibition
A reflection on a dimension that has always accompanied and distinguished man: gift, communion, hospitality.
The exhibition
The exhibition by Mimmo Paladino offers a reflection on a dimension that has always accompanied and distinguished man: gift, communion, hospitality.
Opening Pane e oro (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
The train
The artist exhibits a "train" of solidarity that ideologically cuts the cloister diagonally.
Paladino with The train (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
Shelves as wagons on which they "travel" heads, hats, bodies huddled with "sleepers", hands and tiles.
Detail of the Train (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
All characteristic symbols of Paladino's language.
Visitor with The train (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
Symbols of his story on the meaning of the whole existence and on a collectivity called to be a participatory moment.
Pane e Oro
The great painting created by the artist in 1995 gives the exhibition its title. Perfectly inserted for materiality and colors inside the cloister portico, the canvas is a flash of mystery where light comes from candelabras and "bread meteors" that emulate a comet fall. To light the painting, two red shoes that cross the scene in the upper wall, as if to signal the presence of a traveler in search of shelter and refreshment.
Mimmo Paladino (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
“Today more than ever, I’m sure that, even if we live in always more dilated times in which the contacts are very fast, to resist we shouldn’t leave our roots.”
Mimmo Paladino
Pane e Oro Painting (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
“ To became international, we need to belong to a country. That country for me is Mediterraneo, which is endless heritage of cultures and visions”
Mimmo Paladino
Social Tables
In the south porch of the cloister, under the sixteenth-century frescoes that tell the story of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, a long table engraved with the artist's symbols.
Tavoli Cenacolo (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
Archaic features, olive branches, faces, crosses, and horses' heads.
the ceramics bread (2018) by Maurizio De NisiFondazione Made in Cloister
All around twelve golden bowls and twelve loaves, as the number of the apostles and as - in the Neapolitan Grimace - the defending soldiers of the Community.
Cenacolo by Mimmo Paladino (2018) by Fondazione Made in CloisterFondazione Made in Cloister
The table as a symbol of hospitality and meeting and that, starting from September 2018, will be at the service of the social table that the Foundation, together with the chef Massimo Bottura, will address to the less well-off. The canteen, weekly, proposes to collaborate with great chefs at the service of the community.
