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 Rotella, Mimmo (1918 - 2006)
Italy

Lava Bene, 1963

Décollage on canvas;
136 x 189.8 cm
Nouveau Réalisme

UID 102-497



Biography

Italian painter and décollagist. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples and, in 1945, moved to Rome where he began painting along Expressionist lines. In 1948, he adopted a geometrical abstract idiom which he finally rejected, in 1952, on his return to Italy after having studied in the United States for a year. Around 1954, he gave up painting for a new technique, décollage, which often included films and posters. In 1955, he took part in the exhibition, Esposizione d'arte attuale that led to his being considered a neo-dadaist. In the same year, he had a one-man show at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan, which was followed by others in London, Venice and Zurich. In 1961, he was invited to join the group Nouveau Réalisme, which included other décollage artists. After 1960, he focused on poster images, especially those advertising consumer goods or the cinema, which introduced a theme very close to American and British Pop Art of the same period. In 1964, he settled in Paris and produced what he called reportages, photographs projected on a canvas sensitised with photographic emulsion. In the 80s, he returned to décollage, generally combining posters slashed with paint or completely blotting them out with glued bits of paper. He can be considered one of the greatest exponents of Nouveau Réalisme.



Exhibitions

The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003

The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997

Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000

Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle
Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France
05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002

Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca.
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002

Arte Pop na Colecção Berardo
Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Madeira), Portugal
01-10-2002 ~ 31-01-2003

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma)
The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan
19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima)
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi)
The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan
03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya)
Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka)
Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan
19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo)
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan
26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo)
The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan
06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004

Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo
Galeria Diário de Noticias, Portugal
15-03-2006 ~ 05-05-2006

Novas Salas Pop, Fluxus, Foto-Realismo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
09-06-1997 ~ 28-02-1998

Berardo Museum
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007

De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, France
16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009

Tudo o que é Sólido
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010


Bibliography

Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729742873

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 972817652X

The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom, 2003
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729742898

Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001
Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon
ISBN 2711843319

Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006
Published by Diário de Notícias
ISBN 9729335923

Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 9728176384

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004
Published by TBS Television, INC.

Rotella, 1974 (in which it was first published)
Published by Giampaolo Prearo Editore

The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729739105







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