Quando la moglie è in vacanza
2005Signed
Size
20 x 27.56 in
Year
2005
Reference
8b68191a
This décollage silkscreen print is part of the book "Bellezza eterna" (Eternal Beauty) created by the artist in 2005 in collaboration with the poet Alda Merini.
In this work, the artist uses a cover from the 1955 film "When the Wife is on Holiday" directed by Billy Wilder. Marylin's face is depicted across the page against a green background.
To the left of the poster is a poem written by Alda Merini.
It is hand-signed in the bottom right-hand corner and initialled P.A. (Prova d'Artista) in the bottom left-hand corner. The stamp of the Mimmo Rotella Foundation is also present.
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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