Vinicio Paladini (21 June 1902 – 30 December 1971) was an Italian architect, painter and art theorist.
The son of an Italian father and a Russian mother, Paladini was born in Moscow in 1902, but by 1903 he had already settled with his family in Rome.
[2] A close friend and frequent collaborator of Ivo Pannaggi, he staged with him a "Futurist Mechanical Dance" in the Casa Arte Bragaglia in 1922, and the same year the two signed the "Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art", which theorized the identification between proletariat and machine.
[2] In the second half of the 1920s he launched the Imaginist movement, which took up motifs from Futurism along with others borrowed from Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism.
[1][3] Hostilized by both his futurist colleagues and his left-wing colleagues who had considered his adherence to Futurism as an ideological betrayal, Paladini later experienced a period of marginalization, which led him to move away from Italy on several occasions, in particular finding good success in the United States, where he lived between 1938 and 1953, and which he was forced to leave because of McCarthyism.