Title: “Desiderio nero”
Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Technique: Seridècollage
Dimensions with frame: H94 x W70 x D7 cm
Dimensions without frame: 80 x 60 cm
Signature in pencil lower right, print P.A.
Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origins and a protagonist of the art of the second half of the twentieth century, linked to the Nouveau Réalisme and international Pop Art movements.
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 dècollage, a technique that he experimented for the first time in Rome when, walking around the city, he saw the 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 he clearly approached the concept of the advertising poster conceived as an artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of the Nouveau Réalisme.
