Gone with the Wind - Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Title: "Gone with the Wind" Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) Technique: Seridécollage Dimensions with frame: H104 x W73 x D7 cm & Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70 cm Pencil signed lower right, print 19/125 Mimmo Rotella, whose birth name was Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist from Calabria and a protagonist of the art of the second half of the 20th century, linked to the Nouveau Réalisme and international Pop Art movements. The artist became known above all for his use of torn advertising posters transformed into works of art. In fact, he immediately became famous for his décollages, a technique he first experimented with in Rome when, walking through the city, he saw the detached and torn posters and took them to his studio, transforming them. In 1953 Rotella understood that painting was no longer of great interest to him and became clearly closer to the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.