Mimmo Paladino's 'I Dormienti' Returns with Brian Eno at Cardi Gallery Milan

After more than twenty years since their first exhibition in Poggibonsi during the Arte all'Arte festival, Mimmo Paladino's terracotta sculptures 'I Dormienti' (The Sleepers) are on view at Cardi Gallery in Milan. The installation features thirty-two fetal-position figures arranged across the gallery floor, enveloped in soft penumbra to create a meta-theatrical composition. The sculptures, which evoke fragile dreams and silence, are accompanied by experimental musician Brian Eno's sound compositions, designed to awaken the bodies from their dreamy evanescence. The collaboration between Paladino and Eno began in London in 1999 at the Roundhouse, where the sculptures were first immersed in Eno's ethereal music. Paladino drew inspiration for 'I Dormienti' from Henry Moore's drawings of bodies huddled in London Underground tunnels during World War II bombings. The exhibition also includes 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down', a large mosaic of one hundred drawings created by Paladino in 2020, never before exhibited, reflecting the balance between artistic research intimacy and collective memory.