Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Spirale

Price realised EUR 69,300
Estimate
EUR 50,000 – EUR 70,000
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Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Spirale

Price realised EUR 69,300
Price realised EUR 69,300
Details
Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Spirale
signé 'Rotella' (en bas à droite); signé 'Rotella' (sur le châssis); signé, daté et inscrit 'SPIRALE Rotella / 61' (au revers)
collage d'affiches lacérées sur toile
70.3 x 69 cm.
Executed in 1961

signed 'Rotella' (lower right); signed 'Rotella' (on the stretcher); signed, dated and inscribed 'SPIRALE Rotella / 61' (on the reverse)
collage of torn posters on canvas
27 5⁄8 x 27 1⁄8 in.
Executed in 1961
Provenance
Collection Bouchetal, Paris.
Collection particulière.
Acquis auprès de celle ci par le propriétaire actuel.
Literature
T. Trini, Rotella, Milan, 1974 (illustré).
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella, Catalogo ragionato, Volume primo 1944-1961, Tomo. II., no. 1961 030 (illustré en couleurs, p. 702).
Further details
« Arracher les affiches des murs constitue ma vengeance absolue, la seule protestation contre une société qui n’a plus le goût du changement ni des transformations profondes. Je colle des affiches, puis les arrache, et des formes imprévues en surgissent. C’est cette urgence à protester qui m’a fait abandonner mon chevalet. » - Mimmo Rotella « Autopresentazione », dans Rotella, cat. ex. Galleria d’Arte Selecta, Rome, 1957.

''To tear posters from the wall is my only revenge, the only protest against a society that has lost a taste for change and for amazing transformations. I glue on posters and then I tear them down: new, unforeseen forms come out. It was because of this protest that I abandoned easel painting.''- Mimmo Rotella “Autopresentazione”, in Rotella, exh. cat. Galleria d’Arte Selecta, Rome, 1957.

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