Title: “Tribute to Marilyn”
Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Technique: Seridècollage
Dimensions with frame: H 104 x W 73 x D 7 cm
Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70 cm
Pencil signature at the bottom right, print 80/125
Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origins and a leading figure in the art of the second half of the 20th century, associated with 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.
He immediately became famous for the dècollage, a technique he experimented with for the first time in Rome when, walking through the city, he saw detached and torn posters and took them to his studio, transforming them. The image contains elements of the Taormina FilmFest 2002 edition.
In 1953, Rotella understood that painting was no longer of great interest to him and moved sharply towards the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression.
Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.
