Vinicio Paladini Biography
Vinicio Paladini (1902 - 1971) was an Italian architect, painter and art theorist. Born in Moscow to a Russian mother, he soon moved with his family to Rome. Here in the twenties and thirties, Paladini was able to carve out his own specific space in the shadow of the numerous eminent personalities in that fateful twenty years.
In the 1920s Paladini interacted with the community of the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia and with the futurist community active in the city, establishing a relationship of friendship and creative collaboration with Ivo Pannaggi who shared his strong political sympathies for Bolshevik Russia. In 1922 they signed together the Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art, which was printed in the June issue of "Lacerba".
Parallel to his activity as an architect in the 1930s, Paladini also painted figurative works in 'seventeenth-century' style, which he himself described as characterized by strong luministic contrasts and including female nudes and classical sculptures. He also continued his constant activity as a graphic designer, specializing in the creation of magazine and book covers using photomontage and collage techniques. His work occasionally mixed constructivism and surrealism. In fact, these are the years in which, at the end of the century, the revolutionary process of modernization of the figurative arts and architecture began in Russia, under the aegis of Tatlin, Rochenko, Pevsner, Malevič.
From 1938 he settled in New York where he worked mainly dedicating himself to the creation of commercial premises and design. He returned to Rome in 1953, where he dedicated himself to the profession of architect and re-proposed, similarly to other futurists, the works carried out in the 1920s, participating in the futurist revival and various exhibitions. He died in Rome in 1971.
