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Mimmo
Mimmo is an Italian masculine given name, often occurring as a short form for Domenico. Notable people with the name include: * Mimmo Calopresti (born 1955), Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor * Mimmo Candito (1941–2018), Italian war correspondent * Mimmo Catania (born 1955), Italian painter * Mimmo Cavallo (born 1951), Italian singer-songwriter and composer * Mimmo Cozzolino (born 1949), Italian-born Australian graphic designer and photo media artist * Mimmo Cuticchio (born 1948), Italian cantastorie, puppeteer, actor and playwright * Mimmo Jodice (born 1934), Italian photographer * Mimmo Liguoro (born 1941), Italian journalist * Mimmo Locasciulli (born 1949), Italian singer-songwriter, composer, producer and musician * Mimmo Lucà (1953–2025), Italian politician * Mimmo Paladino (born 1948), Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker * Mimmo Palmara (1928–2016), Italian actor * Mimmo Poli (1920–1986), Italian film character actor * Mimmo Politanò ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Cozzolino
Mimmo Cozzolino is an Australian graphic designer and photo media artist best known for his gently satirical design and research on Australian historic trademarks. Early life Mimmo Cozzolino (christened Domenico but always known as Mimmo) was born 1949 in Ercolano, Naples, Italy. With his father Michele, a printer, and mother Chiara, his family lived on the top floor of a 19th-century palazzo. Cozzolino had three younger brothers; the second died at two years old during the 1950s polio epidemic. Having almost completed second year high school (scuola media), in 1961 he migrated, aged 12, with his family on the '' Flaminia'' to Australia where his father hoped to find better work opportunities for the three surviving sons. Melbourne and education The Cozzolino family disembarked in Melbourne and were transferred to the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre and after his father found work in Melbourne as a letterpress machinist, quickly moved to rented rooms in Kensingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Paladino
Mimmo Paladino (born in Paduli on 18 December 1948) is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker. He is a leading name in the Transvanguardia artistic movement and one of the many European artists to revive Expressionism in the 1980s. Biography Paladino was born on 18 December 1948 in Paduli, Campania, but grew up and trained in Benevento, Italy. From 1964 until 1968, he attended Liceo Artistico di Benevento. He made his debut in 1968 with a solo exhibition at the Galleria Carolina in Portici in Naples. Here he was presented by Achille Bonito Oliva, who was also present for the monographic show at Enzo Cannaviello's Studio Oggetto in Caserta the following year. However, we need to go back to 1964 to find the first major date in his artistic education. This was when, still a schoolboy, he visited the 32nd Venice Biennale and, in particular, the U.S. Pavilion, where he discovered the American Pop artists. In the early 1970s, his approach shifted towards conceptual art and photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Rotella
Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella (Catanzaro, 7 October 1918 – Milan, 8 January 2006) was an Italian artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. Best known for his works of décollage and psychogeographics, made from torn advertising posters. He was associated to the Ultra-Lettrists an offshoot of Lettrism and later was a member of the ''Nouveau realisme, Nouveau Réalisme'', founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany. Biography 1918–1951 After finishing school studies he moves to Naples in 1933 to pursue his artistic studies, but he got a job at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In 1941, he moved to Rome. He remains in the capital only for a short period, because he is called up. In 1944 he left the army and he graduated from the Art School of Naples. Between 1944 and 1945 he teaches drawing in Catanzaro. In 1945 he returned to Rome and, following his figurative beginnings and first experimentations, he began to paint new-geometric paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charley And Mimmo
''Charley and Mimmo'' () is a traditionally animated children's television series that aired on YTV between 1999 and 2002. Career ''Charley and Mimmo'' () consists of a typical family (father, mother, son, and baby sister) in a suburban town. The son, Charley (and his subanthropomorphic teddy bear Mimmo), are the main characters. Charley and his family and friends are penguin/ seal-like creatures (with round orange clown-like noses instead of beaks, and they live in a warm area rather than Antarctica. They have penguin-like feet and coloring, but have mitten-like "hands" rather than wings or flippers). Charley and most of the characters are a standard black and white, typical of real penguins, although some of the other characters are brown. A 2004 movie entitled "T'choupi" was released by Gebeka Films, but only in France, South Korea and Poland. The plot follows Charley and his friends working together to find out who has stolen all the toys. "T'choupi" is Charley's name in Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Politanò
Domenico "Mimmo" Politanò (born 29 November 1958) is an Italian singer-songwriter, writer, painter and radio host. Biography Graduated in Italian studies, history, science and techniques of music and entertainment, he was one of the pioneers of Italian private radio and TV, from 1976 with the first private radios in Milan, he became the author of words and music with :it:Edizioni musicali Curci, he moved to Rome at the end of 1976, where he was artistic director and presenter of Radio Onda Sonora, he works with Radio Onda Sabina, Mondo Radio and with Radio Gabbiano Verde in Nicotera, various radio-TV stations in Argentina. He works in the first Roman TV stations, such as PTS and :it:GBR (rete televisiva), he became the artistic director of Telestudio 61 in Rome and Reggio Calabria, from 1977 to 1981 to then devote himself completely to music and singing. He has written and translated musical texts for Spanish versions for artists such as Domenico Modugno, Edoardo Bennato, Tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Candito
Mimmo Candito (1941 – 3 March 2018) was an Italian war correspondent. Biography Mimmo Candito was born in 1941 in Reggio Calabria. He moved to Genoa in the 1960s and graduated in law there. He was hired at the municipality of the Ligurian capital and began working with Il Lavoro writing articles on cinema and culture. In 1970 he moved to the Turin newspaper La Stampa, for which he became a special correspondent and commentator on international politics. A war correspondent from the main theaters of conflict in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and South America, he covered, among others, the Soviet and American invasions of Afghanistan, the three Gulf Wars and the Falklands War. He has been the Italian president of Reporters Without Borders since 1999 and director of the cultural magazine L'Indice dei libri del mese since 2001. He also collaborated with Rai (), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (RAI), is the national public broadcasting company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Catania
Mimmo Catania (born 1955 in Vittoria, Sicily) is a painter. He works also as a graphic artist, draftsman, photographer, installation artist and writer. Life He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino where he studied painting from 1980 to 1984, and moved after graduation to Berlin where he has been living ever since. Career In 1995, he was artist in residence aArt/Omi Artists international Residency Ghent N.Y., supported by the Senate of Berlin, in 1996, he spent six months in Israel with a grant from KULTURFONDs Berlin, where he was also invited as a lecturer at thHaifa University, Department of Fine Arts and at thWizo College In 1998, he was artist in residence for six months at the Casa di Goethe, thanks to a grant of the DaimlerCrysler Foundation, Rome. In 2005, he received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, and again in 2016. In 2007, he was artist in residence at thSanta Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe with a grant of the Joan Mitchell Foundation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Cuticchio
Mimmo Cuticchio (born 30 March 1948) is an Italian cantastorie, puppeteer, actor and playwright. Life and career Born in Gela, the son of Giacomo, a puppeteer who had a travelling theatre, Cuticchio inherited the family legacy and in 1973 founded the Teatro dei Pupi Santa Rosalia, an Opera dei Pupi in Palermo. The same year he wrote his first cantastoria play, ''Giuseppe Balsamo conte di Cagliostro''. In 1977 he founded the association and stage company "Figli D'Arte Cuticchio". During his career Cuticchio focused on renewing the arts of Opera dei Pupi and cantastoria, opening them to contemporary themes and to civil commitments. As an actor, he appeared in several films, notably playing a leading role in Emanuele Crialese's ''Terraferma''. In 2022, he received a honorary degree from Roma Tre University. In 2007, he won the Hystrio Award in the Teatro Festival Mantova. In 2015 the collection of Sicilian puppets started by his father was acquired by the Sicily Foundation, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Locasciulli
Mimmo Locasciulli (born 7 July 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, producer and musician. Life and career Born in Penne, Abruzzo, Penne, province of Pescara, Pescara, Locasciulli is the son of a vet who in his spare time used to perform as a crooner with the stage name Guido Lucas.Marco Giorgi. "Mimmo Locasciulli". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. In 1965 he formed a band with whom he performed in the music halls of the Adriatic coast. In 1968 he moved to Perugia to study medicine, and there started performing in the piano bars of the city. In 1971 he relocated to the Sapienza University of Rome and after performing in a number of the city's nightclubs he eventually established himself as a regular performer in the club Folkstudio. Locasciulli made his discographic debut in 1975, and after a couple of commercial disappointments he had his first success in 1982, with the album ''Intorno a trent'anni'', produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Jodice
Domenico "Mimmo" Jodice (born 24 March 1934, in Naples) is an Italian photographer. He was professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996. Life and career Since the 1960s Jodice worked with many artists of various styles like Pop art, Arte Povera or Fluxus. As a documentary photographer of conceptual art Jodice made photographs of artists, e.g. Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys oder Robert Rauschenberg. Later he focussed on landscape, and sceneries. In that field Jodice became one of the significant Italian photographers. Jodice dealt mainly with Italian landscapes and cities, using exclusively black-and-white films. Jodice worked on the concept of time, connecting the old and the new, such as run-down monuments and views of modern cities. An example is the series ''LOST IN SEEING. Dreams and Visions of Italy'', whose effect is described by the essayist Alessandro Mauro as follows: "In Jodice’s work silence takes over places and the photographs become metaphysica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Cavallo
Cosimo Cavallo (born 1 January 1951), best known as Mimmo Cavallo, is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Lizzano, Apulia, Cavallo spent his childhood in Turin, where his family had moved.- Ernesto Bassignano. "Cavallo, Mimmo". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. At 17 years old he moved back in Apulia, where he started performing as a singer, and shortly later he moved to Rome, where he began his professional career. In 1980, Cavallo released his first record, the concept album ''Siamo meridionali'', which received large critical acclaim. Active as a songwriter for other artists, his collaborations include work Mia Martini, Zucchero Fornaciari, Ornella Vanoni, Gianni Morandi, Loredana Bertè and Fiorella Mannoia. He composed "Ma che storia è questa", the theme song of the RAI television program ''La storia d'Italia a fumetti'' by Enzo Biagi Enzo Biagi (; 9 August 1920 – 6 November 2007) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Lucà
Domenico "Mimmo" Lucà (16 June 1953 – 13 February 2025) was an Italian politician. A member of the Social Christians, the Democrats of the Left, and the Democratic Party, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013. Lucà died in Rivalta di Torino Rivalta di Torino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 14 km southwest of Turin in the valley of the Sangone. It is home to a medieval castle, around which the town o ... on 13 February 2025, at the age of 71. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Luca, Mimmo 1953 births 2025 deaths Democrats of the Left politicians Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Deputies of Legislature XII of Italy Deputies of Legislature XIII of Italy Deputies of Legislature XIV of Italy Deputies of Legislature XV of Italy Deputies of Legislature XVI of Italy People from the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
