La diva
1980Signed
Size
25 x 25.39 in
Year
1980
Reference
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The work is a serilitograph by arstist Mimmo Rotella, among the most acclaimed artists of Italian Pop Art.
In this work, the Italian artist portrays a movie diva whose face, however, remains only partially recognizable; the tears and lacerations around the female figure create a high-impact visual effect.
The technique is typical of Mimmo Rotella's artistic research: the result obtained is given by the gesture of tearing the playbill on the surface, revealing what is preserved underneath, creating a multitude of chromatic and tactile patterns.
The work is hand-signed at lower right and numbered 178/200 at lower left.
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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