397 - Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn, 2 signed colour silkscreen prints, gallery-framed

Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn, 2 signed colour silkscreen prints, gallery-framed Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella in Catanzaro in 1918 - died in Milan in 2006, an Italian artist associated with Pop Art; shown here: Marilyn, colour silkscreen print, 56 x 60 cm, signed, numbered 185/300, framed under glass, and Marilyn from the portfolio ‘Marilyn, I Volti’, colour silkscreen print, 29 x 29 cm, signed, numbered 53/100, published by Edizioni Tiperti/Rimini, mounted under glass and with a passepartout About the artist: Rotella studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples; he graduated in 1944 and moved to Rome in 1945. In 1951-1952, he lived in Kansas City, where he created murals and recorded phonetic poems. During his stay in the USA, he became acquainted with the works of contemporary American artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and others. In 1961, he joined the ‘Nouveau Réalisme’ group in Paris. In 1964, he moved permanently to Paris and, in 1980, to Milan, where he lived and worked until his death. In 1953, Mimmo Rotella discovered the aesthetic appeal of torn-down posters. From then on, he worked with this medium. These torn-off posters, or ‘décollages’, follow in the tradition of the Cubists, but also of artists such as Kurt Schwitters, and form the core of his artistic output. In this form, the torn-off poster can be regarded as Rotella’s ‘invention’.