Title: "To Catch a Thief" Artist: Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) Technique: Seridècollage Dimensions with frame: H 104 x W 73 x D 7 cm Dimensions without frame: 100 x 70 Pencil signature at the bottom right, print 12/125 Mimmo Rotella, born Domenico Rotella, was an Italian artist of Calabrian origin and a protagonist of art in 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 his décollages, a technique he experimented with for the first time in Rome when, walking through the city, he saw the detached and torn posters and took them to his studio, transforming them. In 1953 Rotella realized that painting was no longer of great interest to him and moved clearly towards the concept of advertising posters conceived as an artistic expression. Rotella thus became part of Nouveau Réalisme.