Mimmo Rotella

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Mimmo Rotella: Verbale N.2847 Edited by Lorenzo Pavolini and Alessandro Riva. Text by Tiziano Scarpa. Still vital and experimental in his late eighties, Mimmo Rotella, the Nouveau Réaliste legend who pioneered the art of effacage, in which he partially cancels images from popular magazines, here collects
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CHARTA/ITALIAN FACTORY
ISBN: 9788881585342
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Rotella Born in Cantanzaro in 1918, Mimmo Rotella revolutionized Italian art in the postwar period, with his ruptures of found urban materials such as advertising posters, an activity that eventually gained the
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CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881580880
$29.95 | In stock

Mimmo Rotella

Mimmo Rotella: Verbale N.2847

Text by Tiziano Scarpo

Edited by Lorenzo Pavolini and Alessandro Riva. Text by Tiziano Scarpa.
Published by Charta/Italian Factory

Still vital and experimental in his late eighties, Mimmo Rotella, the Nouveau Réaliste legend who pioneered the art of effacage, in which he partially cancels images from popular magazines, here collects 30 of those works, many of them published for the first time. Satirical texts by hip Italian novelist Tiziano Scarpa, some 40 years his junior, confirm the continued relevance of Rotella's work.

Rotella

Published by Charta

Born in Cantanzaro in 1918, Mimmo Rotella revolutionized Italian art in the postwar period, with his ruptures of found urban materials such as advertising posters, an activity that eventually gained the name “affichism,” and which allied him with the Nouveaux Réalistes in France (Arman, Christo, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri and Jean Tinguely). These early compositions were primarily abstract, but in the early 1960s he began to feature images of movie stars and consumer goods, developing a more overt critique. Simultaneously, Rotella developed a form of sound poetry that he called “epistaltic” poetry. This essential volume is one of the few catalogues to document all the different phases of Mimmo Rotella's career, from the décollages of the 1950s to the large compositions he created from the 1960s through the 1980s.