Title: "Olympic Rings"
Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Technique: Seridècollage
Dimensions with frame: H 93 x W 66 x D 7 cm
Dimensions without frame: 92 x 62 cm
Pencil signature at the bottom right, print 51/250
Mimmo Rotella, whose birth name was 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 his use of torn advertising posters transformed into works of art.
In fact, he immediately became famous for his décollages, 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 to transform them.
In 1953, Rotella realized that painting was no longer of great interest to him and he clearly approached the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression.
Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.
