Title: “Superman”
Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Technique: Seridècollage (screen printing decollage)
Dimensions with frame: H 104 x W 73 x D 7 cm
Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70 cm
Pencil signature in the lower right, print 103/125
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 dècollage, a technique he first experimented with in Rome when, walking around the city, he saw the posters detached and torn and took them into his studio, transforming them.
In 1953 Rotella understood 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 Nouveau Réalisme.
