Mimmo Rotella
Mimmo Rotella ( born October 7, 1918 in Catanzaro as Domenico Rotella, † January 9, 2006 in Milan ) was an Italian artist.
Life
After attending high school Mimmo Rotella studied at the Art Academy Naples. The study was interrupted from 1941 due to a work for the Post and Telecommunications Ministry in Rome as well as by the military service until 1944. Rotella completed his art studies in 1944 and moved to Rome in 1945. In the years 1951/1952 he lived due to a Fulbright scholarship in Kansas City, where he produced murals and phonetic poems recorded. During his stay in the USA he became acquainted with the works of the then current American artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and others know. In 1961 he joined the group of the New Realism in Paris, which was headed by Pierre Restany. In 1964 he moved to Paris in 1980 to Milan, where he lived and worked until his death. In 1989, he remained at the invitation of the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) in Berlin. 1991 Rotella married the Russian Inna Agarounova. 1993, the daughter Asya was born. Mimmo Rotella 2006, died on January 9 at his home in Milan from pneumonia.
Work
After studying art Mimmo Rotella began with representational paintings and experimented with expressive abstract paintings soon. 1949, Rotella turned to the creation of phonetic poems, which he called " epostaltici ". Was established in 1951 Rotella first contacts in France and he placed at the " Salon des Nouvelles Realists " from Paris.
In 1953 he discovered the aesthetic appeal of torn posters. From then on he worked with this medium ( ' " Manifesti LACERATI ' "). This poster outlines, decollages, in the tradition of the Cubists, but also one of Kurt Schwitters and make the core of his artistic work from. The poster demolition can be considered in this form as Rotellas 'invention'. Inspired by Rotellas practice also uses other artists of this method (eg Dufrêne or grove ). Even the early Vostell was influenced by this artistic attitude. He creates so from set pieces of urban everyday life, advertising, a European counter-position to the American pop art and this was still very close. Transferred Rotella initially posters or poster layers of billboards on the screen ( "Double Décollage " ), ripped sections off and painted over them partially, he later went on to stick poster backs on the canvas, which he reached new abstract effects. He used alongside posters often parts of metal or wood documentation of billboards in public spaces. Rotella varied his method varied, used very different materials ( up to the aircraft wing ) and he often painted over his work also. As early as 1958 Mimmo Rotella created images of movie posters ( series Cinecittà ). This confrontation with the icons of the film accompanied him until his last year of life. 2005 yet he created a series of twelve works with portraits of Marilyn Monroe.
With its connection to the group of the New Realism in Paris Rotella learned the lively art scene of the France of the 1950s know, but also Abstract Expressionism, American-style, as well as the Informal painting influenced his future artistic career. So he created soon no longer alone poster breaks but also assemblages with everyday objects such as beverage closures, rope, cord, etc. Towards the end of the 1960s, Rotella turned typographic works to ' ( Artypo Works) to edit in the early 1970s magazine advertisements. In parallel, Rotella still employed with phonetic poems, so could that in 1976 his first Italian record appear. Had he rolled up in the 1970s posters and enclosed in plexiglass cubes, he began in the 1980s in order to put up posters with neutral paper ( how to prepare for a new poster ). Influenced by graffiti he also ripped posters from, glued them on canvas, and described it with characters and sayings.