To Dream, to Collect
Assalto nella notte, 2004
Size
35 x 37.5 cm
13.78 x 15 in
Reference
b1360b66
Year
2004
Medium
Multiples
Category
Decollage, signed and numbered 20/100. Stamped by Berardinelli and published in "Rotella" volume by Prearo in 2004.
About the Artists
1918 Catanzaro, Italy
Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella (Catanzaro, 7 October 1918 – Milan, 8 January 2006) was an Italian artist and poet who is best known for collages made from torn advertising posters in a medium which he called “double décollages.” He was born on October 7, 1918, in Catanzaro, Italy and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples before moving to Rome in 1945.
There, he became associated with the Lettrism movement and—along with Raymond Hains, Jacque Villeglé, and François Dufrêne—became known as one of Les Affichistes, an artist group credited as the forefather of Street Art. His first solo exhibition was held in 1951 in at the Galleria Chiurazzi in Rome, and later that same year, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship with which he traveled to Kansas City University.
In 1961, he was invited by Pierre Restany to join the New Realism movement, whose members included Yves Klein, Arman, and Jean Tinguely. In 1964, he represented Italy at the Venice Biennale. He died on January 8, 2006 in Milan, Italy at the age of 87.
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Opened in late 2014, LM Gallery is a young and active exhibition space, led by Lea Ficca and Matteo Di Marco. Since its beginning, it has been established as a place of research and promotion of a new generation of artists, in the wake of a new development of the worldwide art market. Scouting and representing young and emerging artists, it focuses on artwor...