Up There Someone Loves Me - Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Title: “Up There Someone Loves Me” Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) Technique: Serigraph collage Dimensions with frame: H104 x W73 x D7 cm Pencil signature at the bottom right, print 28/125 Mimmo Rotella, birth name Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origin and a protagonist of art in 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 décollages, a technique he first experimented with 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 he clearly approached the concept of advertising posters conceived as artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of Nouveau Réalisme.