Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Title: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) Technique: Seridècollage Dimensions with frame: H104 x W73 x D7 cm Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70 cm Pencil signature on the bottom right, print 23/125 Mimmo Rotella, birth name Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origins and a protagonist of the art of the second half of the 20th century, linked to the Nouveau Réalisme and international Pop Art movement. The artist became known above all for the use of torn advertising posters transformed into works of art. In fact, he immediately became famous for the 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 he clearly approached the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.