Mimmo Rotella

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Mimmo Rotella was born in Catanzaro in 1918, but already at the end of the school decides to move to Naples and began art studies. Then obtained, in 1941, employment at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, he moved to Rome, where he stayed for only a short time because of his call to arms. In 1944 obtained his diploma at the Naples Art, which follows a period of teaching in Catanzaro in design. The following year he was still in Rome, where, after starting the figurative type, begins his first experiments in the direction neogeometrica.
From 1947 begins to participate in its first exhibition and, in 1949, is also devoted to experiments on the phonetic poetry, called epistalica. His first solo show was held in 1951 Chiurazzi in Rome at the Galleria, in which he exhibited his works of abstract-geometric type, But failing to collect success from critics. The same year also begins to have the first contact with foreign art, in particular the French and American. Gets, in fact, a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation, that allows him to enter the United States as a “Artist in Residence”, University of Kansas City. Also in Kansas City takes another solo exhibition at the Rockhill Nelson Gallery. This experience allows the wheel to discover and explore all the major representatives of America's most innovative artistic movements of those years.
After a brief interruption in the artistic production, due to his belief that he could not do anything new in the art, thanks to what he called "Zen illumination" starts its activity through the famous takeoff. Mimmo Rotella captures all the communicative power of advertising posters, considering them as an expression of artistic cities. So, he begins to stick to the canvas pieces of torn posters found on the street, presenting for the first time in Rome in the exhibition "Exhibition of contemporary art".
This trend culminated in his new series "Cinecitta", made in 1962, and one dedicated to the characters in world cinema, the faces of the great myths of Hollywood movies.
Between 1956 and 1957 arrive early recognition through the Award and the Award Graziano Battistoni.Il association with the French critic Pierre Restany led him to join the New Realism, Restany which was theoretical, although not among the signatories of the manifesto. In addition to decollage begins to work on assembly of different objects purchased,generally, by scavengers.
In addition to performing his exhibitions abroad, in 1964 is invited to the Venice Biennale and in 1965 the Quadrennial in Rome.
Since the early seventies he began working on some works, intervening on the advertising pages through the use of solvents that reduce the footprint of the stadium or it cancels the image. In addition, he devoted himself to writing his autobiography published entitled Autorotella and recording his first album of phonetic poems.
In 1977 participates in the "Cooperarte", or a cooperative of artists united by the goal of exploring new forms of relationship and dialogue with the public.
In 1990 participates in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the exhibition “Art and Pub” and the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibition “High and Low”.
With the introduction of new technologies began to get interested in digital painting, sponsoring "Digipainting", the first international exhibition on digital, held in Rome at the Palazzo in the fountains 1997. Meanwhile, continues its exhibition schedule took major museums, especially in Paris and the United States.
With the aim of collecting the works and documents relating to his artistic life, in 2000, his will, Mimmo Rotella Foundation was established. In 2004 receives honorary degree in Architecture at the University of Reggio Calabria Mediterranean.
Mimmo Rotella off in 2006. His works are now in several museums and major collections of Italian and foreign.

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