Renowned Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker Mimmo Paladino has become perhaps the first to turn a turbo prop into a work of art with the installation of a painted Piaggio P.180 Avanti II aircraft at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. Dubbed the “Cacciatore di Stelle” (Star Hunter), Paladino’s plane will be on display in the famed centre through April 28. Paladino decorated the turboprop with ancestral symbols, constellations and geometrical designs in homage to the skies in which it travels.
The “Cacciatore di Stelle” is part of the “anthological and personal” exhibition of Paladino’s work hosted by the Palazzo Reale, the seat of government of the Italian city of Milan for many centuries and today is an important cultural centre, including more than 50 of his artworks from the ‘70s to the present day. “The P.180 Avanti has been chosen because it can be considered a work of art itself,” notes Alberto Galassi, CEO of Piaggio Aero Industries, “an expression of Italian genius in design and engineering.” Want your own Avanti work of art? Start by acquiring one of the cool planes on James.
