Print referring to the famous series of painted carpets. "Surely the exoticism for him was something extremely fascinating - his worldwide renowed cycle of carpets painted on a poor material - an industrial construction material called Eraclit - are now part of a dimension where art transorms culture. [...] It is not just painting, but also the perception of an ongoing change, of a shift of the point of interest towards different cultures. [...] His Orientalism is not a casuality. From 1981 to 1985 he created some personal works in the Studio De Ambrogi in Milan and in the Franz Paludetto Gallery in Torino, getting closer to that Orient seen with the eyes of the West, just like painters from XIX century, e.g. Eugene Delacroix or Eduard Manet, had previously done." - Valerio Dehò, "Aldo Mondino. Viaggi straordinari"

DEHÒ, Valerio, "Aldo Mondino. Viaggi straordinari", Villa Bertelli, Agenzia NFC, Rimini, 2020, pp. 13-14.