MIMMO ROTELLA (Catanzaro, Italy, 1918 - Milan, 2006). "Super Batman", 2003. Décollage adhered to canvas. Unique piece. Signed in the lower right corner. Dated and titled on the back. With label of the Mimmo Rotella Foundation. The Centre Pompidou keeps another décollage of this same film. Attached certificate signed by Guy Pieters, from the Pieters Gallery. It has damage in the lower margin. Measurements: 182 x 130 cm; 186 x 134 cm (frame). In "Batman" Mimmo Rotella demonstrates once again his tireless facet as a creator and his involvement in experimentation with the new artistic languages of the second half of the twentieth century. The Italian, who once began as a painter of geometric abstractions, demonstrates in this "décollage" his artistic progress and his constant contact with the world around him. He uses advertising posters and old movie posters which, once torn from the walls, he sticks to the canvas to create semi-abstract compositions. The poster chosen for the bidding décollage is from the film "Batman", a William Dozier production starring Adam West (playing Batman) and Burt Ward (in the role of his sidekick Robin). A multidisciplinary artist, Mimmo Rotella worked with techniques as diverse as painting, ceramics, tapestry, drawing, graphics and photography. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and after the end of the war, in 1945, he went to Rome, where he came into contact with the avant-garde. Later he moved to Paris and the United States, and on his return to Rome he turned to the expressive possibilities of the advertising poster, creating a new technique called décollage. In Paris he participated in the experience of the Noveau Rèalisme and his interest in the poetics of mechanical processes was also expressed with the creation of Mec-art, or processes of serial transcription of the image. He is currently represented in museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among many others.