Title: "The Giant" - James Dean
Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Technique: Décollage
Dimensions with frame: H 104 x W 73 x D 7 cm
Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70
Signed in pencil lower right, print 39 / 125
Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origin and a leading figure in art during the second half of the 20th century, associated with the Nouveau Réalisme movement and international Pop Art.
The artist became particularly known for his use of torn advertising posters transformed into works of art. He indeed immediately became famous for his décollages, a technique he first experimented with in Rome when walking through the city, he saw detached and torn posters and took them to his studio to transform them. In 1953, Rotella realized that painting no longer greatly interested him and he clearly moved towards the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of Nouveau Réalisme.
