MIMMO ROTELLA (Italy, 1918 - 2006). Untitled,... Lot 40

MIMMO ROTELLA (Italy, 1918 - 2006). Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial". Silkscreen on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 114/250. Signed and justified by hand. Size: 93 x 60 cm. The Olympic Suite is made up of 50 lithographs and silkscreen prints chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined by different pictorial movements and trends. A multidisciplinary artist, Mimmo Rotella worked with techniques as diverse as painting, ceramics, tapestry, drawing, graphics and photography. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and after the end of the war, in 1945, he went to Rome, where he came into contact with the avant-garde. He later moved to Paris and the United States, and on his return to Rome he turned his attention to the expressive possibilities of the advertising poster, creating a new technique called décollage. He is currently represented in museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among many others.