The Marconi Foundation is pleased to announce the third round of the new series of exhibitions, Gli Abitanti del Museo, dedicated to a group of works by Mimmo Rotella, executed from 1949 to 1989, and ranging from the artist's early collages and décollages to the retro d’affiches, the Mec Art works, the blanks and the overpaintings.
The works on display have already been the subject of several shows by Mimmo Rotella in public venues in Italy and abroad and in retrospective or group exhibitions dedicated to pop art and nouveau réalisme.
At the second floor of the Marconi Foundation a selection of works from 1949 to 1970 will be on display, among which the collage Eclisse gialla (1949), the retro d’affiches Come un arazzo (1956) and Argentina (1957); the décollages Un poco in su (1954), Espansione piacevole, (1958), Le cachet, (1960), Scotch Brand (1960) and Viva America (1963); the artypos on plexiglass The brandy of Napoleon and Natura Morta (1972), and on emulsified canvas Les deux amies (1966).
At the beginning of the Fifties Rotella abandoned easle painting in favour of collage; in 1952 he created the décollages, made from torn advertising posters, followed by the retro d’affiches, posters that the artist manipulated on the verso side of the paper giving birth to non figurative works.
By the mid-Sixties Rotella was among the exponents of Mec Art and executed his first artypos, made from printing proofs that he selected and then mounted on canvas or on plexiglass, using a typographic process.