Mimmo Rotella

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

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Description

Mimmo Rotella
All'Auditorium
signed and dated 62; signed, titled and dated 1962 on the reverse
décollage on canvas
61 by 98cm.
24 by 38½in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Literature

Tommaso Trini, Rotella, Milan 1974, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"Posters are important not only for themselves but also for their topicality. Their colours acquire new meaning and today the 'images' get new meaning for me as they introduce a really new element in my everyday relation with the street. Colour's emotional mainspring triggers my willingness to lacerate and starts the complex chain of facts that find completion in my work."

(Mimmo Rotella cited in a letter to the gallery owner Guido Le Noci, 1961, from P. Restany, Mimmo Rotella: dal Décollage alla Nuova Imagine, Milan 1963)