Mimmo Rotella

MIMMO ROTELLA (Italy, 1918 - 2006).
Untitled, 1992.
Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy P.A. 35/50.
Signed and numbered in pencil.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.

Multidisciplinary artist, Mimmo Rotella worked techniques as diverse as painting, ceramics, tapestry, drawing, graphics or photography, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and after the end of the war, in 1945, he went to Rome and there 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 to the expressive possibilities of the advertising poster, creating a new technique called décollage. He is currently represented in museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among many others.

The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined by diverse pictorial movements and trends.