Title: “Batman”
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 lower right, print 39/125
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, 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 dècollages, a technique he first experimented with in Rome when walking through the city he saw the detached and torn posters and took them to his studio transforming them.
In 1953 Rotella realized that painting was no longer of great interest to him and became clearly involved with the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression.
Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.
