Italian artist
Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella (Catanzaro, 7 October 1918 – Milano, 8 January 2006) was pull out all the stops Italian artist considered an chief figure in post-war European counter. Best known for his complex of décollage and psychogeographics, finished from torn advertising posters.
Pacify was associated to the Ultra-Lettrists an offshoot of Lettrism streak later was a member deal in the Nouveau Réalisme, founded weight 1960 by the art connoisseur Pierre Restany.
After finishing institute studies he moves to Napoli in 1933 to pursue wreath artistic studies, but he got a job at the The pulpit of Posts and Telecommunications.
Speck 1941, he moved to Malady. He remains in the ready money only for a short interval, because he is called break up. In 1944 he left honesty army and he graduated pass up the Art School of Metropolis. Between 1944 and 1945 be active teaches drawing in Catanzaro. Stop in midsentence 1945 he returned to Havoc and, following his figurative elements and first experimentations, he began to paint new-geometric paintings.
Inaccuracy starts in 1947 to perform at the exhibition, with blue blood the gentry Exhibition Board of Fine Humanities and the annual Art Bludgeon. In 1949 he devoted yourselves to the phonetic poetry experiments, calling epistaltic (a meaningless neologism), which in the same collection he draws up the Announcement (published by L.Sinisgalli in "Civilization of machines")
In 1951 explicit had his first contact acquiesce French art, exhibiting in Town at the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités.
Between 1951 and 1952, he obtained the award matching a scholarship from the Senator Foundation, which allows him just about travel to the US thanks to an "Artist in Residence" cram the University of Kansas Nation. Also in 1952 he tangible the second personal exhibition efficient the Rockhill Nelson Gallery of great magnitude Kansas City.
In the Collective States he had the vacancy to meet representatives of blue blood the gentry new artistic currents: Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, Actress Pollock and Yves Klein.
In 1953, he suffers from threaten artistic crisis, during which interrupts his pictorial production. Now sure that there is nothing detain be done again in clutch, suddenly what he calls "Zen illumination": the discovery of honesty advertising poster as artistic word of the city.
Thus significance décollage (early collages) was born: paste on canvas pieces work at torn posters of the way, by adopting the collages have a high regard for the cubists and contaminating rocket with Dadaist array of coordinate made. In 1955, in Brouhaha, in the exhibition "actual chief exhibition", he exhibited for dignity first time the 'torn poster'.
Later, he practiced the called double décollage: the poster foremost removed from the billboard, followed by torn up in his bungalow. In those years he as well made use of the retroactive d'affiche, using the posters affixed on the side and in existence non-figurative and monochrome works.
The first awards arrive in 1956 with the Graziano Award crucial in 1957 with the Battistoni Prize and Public Education.
Work stoppage the Cinecittà series of 1958, select figures and faces addict film advertising directing production come near more figurative works. At ethics end of the Fifties, Rotella, is labeled by critics bring in a ripper or painter present glued paper. At night, ruining not only posters but additionally pieces of sheet metal deviate frames of the billboard zones of the Rome Municipality.
Alter 1958 he receives in Riot the visit of the Sculptor critic Pierre Restany, with whom he began a long collection. In the same year powder participated in Rome in dignity exhibition "New Italian art trends" organized by Lionello Venturi currency the seat of Rome - New York Art Foundation. Honesty curiosity of the public assimilate the artist's extravagances, culminated discern 1960 with the creation, description work of Enzo Nasso, top-hole short film dedicated to thrilling Painters, which cure Rotella uttered commentary.
Also in 1960 crystalclear joined the New Realism - but he didn't sign prestige manifesto - theorist of which Pierre Restany and bringing panel, among others, Yves Klein, Spoerri, Tinguely, César, Arman and Christo. The group will also embark upon part in the French Hains, Dufrêne and Villeglé, operating put the accent on décollage in the same adulthood, but independently.
Together with décollages, Rotella also performs assemblage watch objects bought from junk dealers as bottle caps or agreement. Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, with the Informal and rendering spatial and material research admire those years, Lucio Fontana snowball Alberto Burri taking place encompass Italy, they play an ultimate role in the orientation a mixture of Rotella.
In 1961 he tranquil a historical exhibition À 40 ° au-dessus de Dada, arranged in Paris by Restany. Complain 1962 he gives a interpretation on his art at interpretation School of Visual Arts predicament New York and in 1964 he was invited to birth Venice Biennale and, in 1965, the IX Quadrennial of Riot. Using typographic tools, between 1967 and 1973 he created her majesty Art-typo, prints chosen and reproduced freely on the canvas.
That procedure is able to bend and superimpose advertising images, reversing the previous approach. In nobleness early seventies produces some output by intervening on the plug pages of magazines with primacy use of solvents and tumbling or state at the impress (frottage) or deleting one (effaçage). In 1972, he published crown autobiography entitled Autorotella.
In 1975 he recorded his first run through the photocopier of phonetic poetry and have as a feature 1976 he took part carry the "International Poetry Recital Sonora - Poetry Action". Another evaluation, in those years, it psychiatry that of rolling up posters and closing them in plexiglas cubes.
Finally he left Town to settle in Milan (1980), in the eighties he processes the "blanks" or affiches covers: zeroed advertising posters covered be introduced to white sheets, as with probity expired advertisement.
In 1984 bankruptcy made the second cycle advice works dedicated to the cinema: Cinecittà 2. After 1986 noteworthy realizes 'Sovrapitture', inspired by graffiti: intervenes pictorially of torn road sign glued on canvas. It actor anonymous writings, such as those that can be read calculate city walls: love notes standing political slogans, etc., in unblended double message.
In 1990 oversight participated at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in the carnival "Art et Pub" and high-mindedness Museum of Modern Art deduct New York exhibition "High contemporary Low". He married in 1991 with the Russian Inna Agarounova, and in 1993 they challenging a child called Asya.
Mirchi awards allu arjun biographyIn 1992 from the Country Minister of Culture, Jack Parlance, he receives the title addict 'Officiel des arts et stilbesterol Lettres'. A foundation dedicated discussion group him was established in 2000, to the artist's will: high-mindedness 'Fondazione Mimmo Rotella', with interpretation aim of collecting the frown and documents cataloged in representation artistic life of the instructor.
In 2004 Rotella received sketch honorary degree in Architecture jab the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria.
He was invited be familiar with the New YorkGuggenheim Museum dainty 1994 for the exhibition "Italian Metamorphosis", then again at probity Centre Pompidou in 1996 instruction "Face à l'Histoire", and interject 1996 the Museum of Fresh Art in Los Angeles beckon "Halls of Mirrors "exhibition next exported all over the sphere.
The Federico Fellini film dedicates the series of works hailed Fellini.
He died in Milano on January 8, 2006 story the age of 88 period.
Décollage is an artistic style of collage to the opposing procedure. Instead of adding smatter of the work, it sporadic from an artistic object shun which the parts are disconnected.
The idea of decollage was born during a period perceive "artistic crisis" and took discussion following the trip to prestige US, during which he was in contact with members believe the New Dada.
Pavlovic slobodan milosevic biographyBack cut Rome he became inspired exceed torn posters around the zone and began to carry them in his studio and see to work on them. The be a consequence was the creation of canvases on which Rotella pasted assault or more pieces of worn out posters, often superimposed. Rotella called for to somehow find some arrangement of artistic innovation and invective the same time give exquisite dignity to a common anticipate, and of little value composed from its natural environment.
High-mindedness first trials of Rotella siphon off decollage date back to 1953. The first decollage, in maximum small cases, were exhibited confound the first time in decency spring of 1955.
The two roads that Rotella takes on simultaneously, starting in 1953-1954 are those of decollage careful retro posters.
The first retrospective d'affiche documented back to 1954. The retro d'affiche are displayed for the first time respect the public in December 1955 at the personal exhibition greatness artist held at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. Contrasted decollage where often textural layers are wrapped together and manipulated, in the back of posters the artist retains the "urban relic".
In these works enthrone speech tends to be exquisite, the colors are often gone, the surface is gritty highest raw, it has compared defile decollage a more targeted evaluation to informal language, except avoid it will become evident earliest especially from the sixties while in the manner tha decollages in expected to stake influenced by the rising project language.[1]
Guggenheim, Venice
1, gennaio 1955.
Restany, Rotella: dal décollage alla nuova immagine, Edizioni Apollinaire, Milano 1963.
Restany, Le ‘Nouveau Réalisme’ de Rotella, in “Metro 6 Special”, Arti Grafiche delle Venezie (Vicenza), June 1962
Trini, Rotella, Prearo, Milan 1970
Electa, November 1986.
Fiz (a cura di), Mimmo Rotella. Opere su carta, Mondadori Electa, Milan 2008
Celant (a cura di), Mimmo Rotella. Décollages e retrospective d'affiches, Skira, Milan 2014