Title: “Gone with the Wind”
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, P. A. print.
Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origins 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 dècollages, a technique he first experimented with in Rome when walking around the city he saw 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 moved clearly towards the concept of advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression.
Rotella thus became part of Nouveau Réalisme. Based on the image, the title of the artwork is actually "Some Like it Hot", and not "Gone with the Wind".
