Diabolik - Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
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Title: “Diabolik”
Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Technique: Seridécollage
Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70 cm
Pencil signature in the lower right, print 51/125
Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origins and a prominent figure in the art of the second half of the 20th century, linked to the Nouveau Réalisme movement and international Pop Art.
The artist became known above all for the use of torn advertising posters transformed into works of art.
In fact, he immediately became famous for the décollages, a technique he first experimented with in Rome when, walking through the city, he saw the posters detached and torn and brought them into his studio, transforming them.
In 1953 Rotella realized that painting was no longer of great interest to him and clearly approached the concept of the advertising poster conceived as artistic expression.
Rotella thus became part of Nouveau Réalisme.