This extensive monograph traces Mimmo Paladino's entire creative career, from the beginning of his output in the early Seventies right up until today. His interests and influences are varied (during a long stay in Brazil he researched the synthesis of Catholicism and African culture), but they are always linked by the constant appearance of the figure in his pieces. Silence also plays a large part in Paladino's works, and the silent memories that are accessed through his paintings are less idiomatic than have been supposed: 'Even though I live in southern Italy, a place full of magic and mystery, I can't say it has a prevailing influence over me because today we receive so many stimuli characterised by an international matrix...But I do identify with...nomadism. For me it means crossing the various territories of art...with maximum technical and creative freedom.'