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Mimmo Rotella was born on 7 October, 1918, is an Italian artist. Discover Mimmo Rotella's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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1918

Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella (Catanzaro, 7 October 1918 – Milan, 8 January 2006) was an Italian artist considered an important figure in post-war European art.

Best known for his works of décollage and psychogeographics, made from torn advertising posters.

1933

After finishing school studies he moves to Naples in 1933 to pursue his artistic studies, but he got a job at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

1941

In 1941, he moved to Rome.

He remains in the capital only for a short period, because he is called up.

1944

In 1944 he left the army and he graduated from the Art School of Naples.

Between 1944 and 1945 he teaches drawing in Catanzaro.

1945

In 1945 he returned to Rome and, following his figurative beginnings and first experimentations, he began to paint new-geometric paintings.

1947

He starts in 1947 to participate at the exhibition, with the Exhibition Board of Fine Arts and the annual Art Club.

1949

In 1949 he devoted himself to the phonetic poetry experiments, calling epistaltic (a meaningless neologism), which in the same year he draws up the Manifesto (published by L.Sinisgalli in "Civilization of machines")

1951

In 1951 he had his first contact with French art, exhibiting in Paris at the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités.

Between 1951 and 1952, he obtained the award of a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation, which allows him to travel to the US as an "Artist in Residence" at the University of Kansas City.

1952

Also in 1952 he realized the second personal exhibition at the Rockhill Nelson Gallery in Kansas City.

In the United States he had the opportunity to meet representatives of the new artistic currents: Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, Jackson Pollock and Yves Klein.

1953

In 1953, he suffers from an artistic crisis, during which interrupts his pictorial production.

Now convinced that there is nothing to be done again in art, suddenly what he calls "Zen illumination": the discovery of the advertising poster as artistic expression of the city.

Thus the décollage (early collages) was born: paste on canvas pieces of torn posters of the street, by adopting the collages of the cubists and contaminating it with Dadaist array of ready made.

1955

In 1955, in Rome, in the exhibition "actual art exhibition", he exhibited for the first time the 'torn poster'.

Later, he practiced the so-called double décollage: the poster firstly removed from the billboard, then torn up in his studio.

In those years he also made use of the retro d'affiche, using the posters pasted on the side and obtaining non-figurative and monochrome works.

1956

The first awards arrive in 1956 with the Graziano Award and in 1957 with the Battistoni Prize and Public Education.

1958

With the Cinecittà series of 1958, select figures and faces of film advertising directing production toward more figurative works.

At the end of the Fifties, Rotella, is labeled by critics as a ripper or painter of glued paper.

At night, tearing not only posters but also pieces of sheet metal from frames of the billboard zones of the Rome Municipality.

In 1958 he receives in Rome the visit of the French critic Pierre Restany, with whom he began a long association.

In the same year he participated in Rome in the exhibition "New Italian art trends" organized by Lionello Venturi in the seat of Rome - New York Art Foundation.

1960

He was associated to the Ultra-Lettrists an offshoot of Lettrism and later was a member of the Nouveau Réalisme, founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany.

The curiosity of the public for the artist's extravagances, culminated in 1960 with the creation, the work of Enzo Nasso, a short film dedicated to angry Painters, which cure Rotella spoken commentary.

Also in 1960 he joined the New Realism - but he didn't sign the manifesto - theorist of which Pierre Restany and bringing together, among others, Yves Klein, Spoerri, Tinguely, César, Arman and Christo.

The group will also take part in the French Hains, Dufrêne and Villeglé, operating on décollage in the same years, but independently.

Together with décollages, Rotella also performs assemblage of objects bought from junk dealers as bottle caps or cords.

Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, with the Informal and the spatial and material research in those years, Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri taking place in Italy, they play an important role in the orientation of Rotella.

1961

In 1961 he composed a historical exhibition À 40 ° au-dessus de Dada, edited in Paris by Restany.

1962

In 1962 he gives a presentation on his art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and in 1964 he was invited to the Venice Biennale and, in 1965, the IX Quadrennial of Rome.

1967

Using typographic tools, between 1967 and 1973 he created his Art-typo, prints chosen and reproduced freely on the canvas.

This procedure is able to overlap and superimpose advertising images, reversing the previous approach.

In the early seventies produces some works by intervening on the advertising pages of magazines with the use of solvents and reducing or state at the imprint (frottage) or deleting one (effaçage).

1972

In 1972, he published his autobiography entitled Autorotella.

1975

In 1975 he recorded his first disc of phonetic poetry and in 1976 he took part in the "International Poetry Recital Sonora - Poetry Action".

Another trial, in those years, it is that of rolling up posters and closing them in plexiglass cubes.