Collage on laid carton, colored with marker
Italy, circa 1985
Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) - Italian artist
Signed lower left ‘Rotella’
Titled within the representation ‘Culo’
Sheet size: 40.3 x 33.1 cm
Very good condition
With certificate of the Foundation ‘Fondazione Mimmo Rotella’, No. 0389 SP XXX/XXX
The work will be included in the forthcoming catalog raisonné (oral confirmation)
Provenance: Private Collection, Naples, Sergio Moccia (Fondazione Rotella)
Characteristic works of the Italian artist in the form of a collage from the 1980s, collages on paper fetch up to €22,000 at international auctions

In the beginning of 1950s Italian artist Mimmo Rotella discovered a new medium in which he began to express himself artistically by tearing off old advertising or movie posters from its originally attached, public place to develop them as Décollage to a new aesthetic form. Finally, in the 1980s he began to work with picks from magazines, which he overpainted with characters or phrases. Thereby Rotella stands in the tradition of the Cubists such as Kurt Schwitters and artists like the US American Robert Rauschenberg also practiced this technique in a somewhat modified form.



With certificate of the Foundation ‘Fondazione Mimmo Rotella’, No. 0389 SP XXX/XXX. The work will be included in the forthcoming catalog raisonné (oral confirmation).



The work is signed lower left ‘Rotella’ and is in very good condition. The sheet is mounted loose in four photo corners. The sheet size 40.3 x 33.1 cm, the framed dimensions are 69 x 53.5 cm.



Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Mimmo Rotella was born in Catanzaro in 1918. He began his studies at the Academy of Art in Naples, and graduated in Rome in 1944. A scholarship enabled him in 1951 to stay in the US, where he came into contact with the works of the artists Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg. After that he spent some time in Paris, where he became a member of the group Nouveau Réalisme. Influenced by the currents of Abstract Expressionism and the Art Informel, Mimmo Rotella developed his collages and décollages that apply in the form as ‘Manifesti Lacerati’ as his thematic invention. His works are represented in prestigious collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Tate, London, Museum Ludwig, Cologne as well as the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Rome and Milan.

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