mimmo rotella
Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro, Italy, 1918 - Milan, Italy, 2006) was an Italian artist who focused his work in painting and collage fundamentally. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples after leaving the army in 1944. A year later, just after the war, he moves to Rome where he comes into contact with avant-garde. There he developed a form of pictorial expression of neo-geometric nature. In 1949 Rotella creates a method called expression epilastic, a mixture consisting of words with sounds and onomatopoeias.
In 1951 he traveled to Paris and participated in the Hall of the New Realists. He also travels to America where he created a large mural and continued working on his phonetic poems at Harvard University and at the Library of Congress in Washington. There he met artists like Rauschenber, Oldenburg, Yves Kline, Pollock and Twombly.
After returning to Rome in 1953 he cut his production as he felt there was nothing new to do in art. However, he discovered a new element of artistic expression, the billboard. Rotella started making compositions with pieces of posters that he tore off the street walls, giving rise to decollage, opposed to Cubist collage, which gave birth to Dada. These works can be understood as a fusion between the NeoDada and Pop Art and fit into the Italian Arte Povera movement.
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Ombre Rosse
Multiple decollage 100 x 70 cm - Edition of 125 Multiple decollage signed by the artist. Limited edition of 50 numbered with roman numerals. Includes stamp and certificate by Fondazione Mimmo Rotella and by NordEst. Work referenced in the catalog raisonné "Mimmo Rotella - Multipli Décollages" edited by SilvanaEditoriale. If you would like more info about this piece, Send us an email -
Comanceros
Multiple decollage 100 x 70 cm - Edition of 125 Multiple decollage signed by the artist. Limited edition of 50 numbered with roman numerals. Includes stamp and certificate by Fondazione Mimmo Rotella and by NordEst. Work referenced in the catalog raisonné "Mimmo Rotella - Multipli Décollages" edited by SilvanaEditoriale. If you would like more info about this piece, Send us an email -
La magnifica preda
Multiple decollage 100 x 70 cm - Edition of 125 Multiple decollage signed by the artist. Limited edition of 50 numbered with roman numerals. Includes stamp and certificate by Fondazione Mimmo Rotella and by NordEst. Work referenced in the catalog raisonné "Mimmo Rotella - Multipli Décollages" edited by SilvanaEditoriale. If you would like more info about this piece, Send us an email -
La veglia delle acquile
Multiple decollage 100 x 70 cm - Edition of 125 Multiple decollage signed by the artist. Limited edition of 50 numbered with roman numerals. Includes stamp and certificate by Fondazione Mimmo Rotella and by NordEst. Work referenced in the catalog raisonné "Mimmo Rotella - Multipli Décollages" edited by SilvanaEditoriale. If you would like more info about this piece, Send us an email
