Black Desire - Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Title: "Black Desire" Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) Technique: Serigraph décollage Dimensions with frame: H94 x L70 x D7 cm Dimensions without frame: 80 x 60 cm Pencil signature lower right, P.A. print. Mimmo Rotella, born 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 movement and international Pop Art. 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 décollage, a technique he experimented with for the first time in Rome when walking around 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 clearly approached the concept of an advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.