Mimmo ROTELLA - River of no Return - Seridécollage
River of no Return
Seridécollage
Signed lower right by the artist and marked P.A. lower left
Seal of Fondazione Mimmo Rotella lower left
70 x 100 cm (27.6 x 39.4 inches)
NOTES
The handmade seridécollage with rips, created by Mimmo Rotella, is applied on this western movie poster River of no Return, directed by Otto Premnger in 1954 and performed by Marilyn Monroe and
Robert
Mitchum.
Dimensions :
- Height : 70 cm
- Width : 100 cm
Mimmo Rotella :
(1918-2006) is an italian artist, who was born in 1918 in Catanzaro and who died in 2006 in Milano.
In 1945, he settled in Rome et started his painter carreer, after studying art in Napoli. He started with figurative art, but soon elaborated an visual expression mode of neo-geometric origin. He made his first personal exhibition in 1951 at the Gallery Chiurazzi in Rome where he presented abstract and geometric works, which were not much appreciated by the critic.
In 1951-1952, he went to the US and met artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Later, he met Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko in Rome in 1960.
Afterwards, he went through a long crisis period, as he was convinced thant everything had already been made in art. He managed to get out of it when he discover the advertisment posters, as an artistic expresson and messenger through the city. He exhibited for the first time his lacerated posters in 1955. With the series "Cinecittà" (1958), he worked on cinema posters, onto which he isolated faces and figures.
He was friend with the french art critic Pierre Restany, he joined the movement "Nouveau Realisme" (New Realism) in 1960. In 1961, he took part in the exhibition « 40° au-dessus de Dada » (40° above Dada), organized in Paris by Restany, with Arman, Cesar, yves Klein, Deschamps, Villeglé, Hains, and he settled in Paris.
Rotella moved back to Milano in 1980, where he died in 2006.
Fondazione Marconi - Milano (Italy)
FRAC Poitou-Charente (France)
Museum Villa Haiss (Germany)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Macro Roma (Italy)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Musée d'art Moderne et contemporain de Nice (MAMAC) (France)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
MAMCO (Switzerland)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
SMAK (Belgium)
FRAC Nord Pas de Calais (France)
FRAC Franche-Comté (France)
MADRE - Museo d'Arte contemporanea DonnaREgina (Italy)
Museum Morsbroich (Germany)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
MAMbo (Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna) (Italy)
Museo Del Novecento (Italy)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Agnes and Frits Becht Collection (Netherlands)
MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria)
Carré d'Art (Nîmes) (France)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Collezione Maramotti (Italy)
Collezione Peruzzi (Italy)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
The Giuliana and Tommaso Setari Collection (The USA)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Collection Michael Werner (France)
Museo Villa Croce (Italy)
Collection Michel Fedoroff (Monaco)
Collezione Farnesina (Italy)
The Rachofsky Collection (The USA)
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (Switzerland)
MACK - Museo Arte Contemporanea Crotone (Italy)
The MAB of Cosenza: The open air museum "Carlo Bilotti" (Italy)
