Mimmo Rotella

MIMMO ROTELLA (Catanzaro, Italy, 1918 - Milan, 2006).
"Circo Orfei".
Silkscreen and décollage on heavyweight paper, copy 3/125.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 100 x 70 cm.
In "Circo Orfei" Mimmo Rotella demonstrates once again his tireless facet as a creator and his implication in the experimentation with the new artistic languages of the second half of the XX century. The Italian, who once began as a painter of geometric abstractions, demonstrates in this "décollage" his artistic progress and his constant contact with the world around him.
A multidisciplinary artist, Mimmo Rotella worked with techniques as diverse as painting, ceramics, tapestry, drawing, graphics and photography. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and after the end of the war, in 1945, he went to Rome, where he came into contact with the avant-garde. Later he moved to Paris and the United States, and on his return to Rome he turned his attention to the expressive possibilities of the advertising poster, creating a new technique called décollage. In Paris he participated in the experience of the Noveau Rèalisme and his interest in the poetics of mechanical processes was also expressed with the creation of Mec-art, or processes of serial transcription of the image. He is currently represented in museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among many others.