To Dream, to Collect
Reference
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Year
2000
Medium
Drawings & Works on Paper
Size
70 x 100 cm
27.56 x 39 in
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Artwork offered by
Pisacane Arte, Milano
Technique: Seridécollage
Seridécollage with rips handmade from the western movie poster River of no Return, directed by Otto Premnger in 1954 and performed by Marilyn MOnroe and Robert Mitchum. Signed lower right by the artist and marked P.A. lower left. There is also the seal of Fondazione Mimmo Rotella lower left.
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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About the Gallery
Address
Milano, Via Carlo Pisacane 36
Pisacane Arte is a contemporary and modern art gallery situated in Milan. With over 300 mq of space, the gallery organizes exhibitions, events and cultural conferences in order to encourage the encounter between artists, collectors and art lovers. The art gallery offers artworks by historicized and emerging artists, with a particular attention to pop and st...