Mimmo Rotella

October 7th 1918 -January 8th 2006.

Born Cantazoro, Calabria

Mimmo Rotella was an artist and poet best known for his décollage and psychgeographical, made from advertising posters from the street, which had been torn..

Décollage is the opposite of collage and is the act of ripping, tearing or otherwise destroying the image.

He was associated to the Ultra-letterists a movement developed by Jean- Louis Brau, Gil Wolman and Francis Dunfrene in the 1950's. It was a poetry movement to abolish words in favour of linguistic noise. It was inspired by early Dada.

Mimmo Rotella was also a member of the Nouveau Réalisme a movement founded by Pierre Restany and the painter Yves Klein. Pierre Restany wrote the original manifesto for the group,entitled "Constitutive Declaration of New Realism," in April 1960. Members of Nouveau Réalisme tended to see the world as an image from which they could take parts and incorporate them into their work.

Mimmo Rotella creates his work by gluing parts of advertisements which he had ripped from city walls onto canvas. He also experimented with randomly gluing typographic proofs onto canvases and covering the ripped posters with monochrome sheets of paper and painting straight onto the adverts.

Images:

http://rogallery.com/Rotella_Mimmo/rotellahm.htm

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