Mimmo Rotella

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Description

Mimmo Rotella
Con un Sorriso
signed and dated 62; signed, titled and dated 1962 on the reverse
décollage on canvas
154 by 132cm.
60 5/8 by 52in.

Provenance

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome

Exhibited

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, IV Rassegna di Arti Figurative di Roma e del Lazio, 1963

Venice, XXXII Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1964, no. 103

Literature

Sam Hunter, Rotella, Décollages 1954-1964, Milan 1986, p. 76, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"In a context made dynamic by the anonymous laceration, a mouth opens into a smile, an appearing face, an emerging body, each acquires an unexpected significance, they all become stimuli to a vision, with an almost violent expressive power.

Compared to their original state, these images/forces, generated by the Roman walls, are endowed with an excessive presence that disenchants their myth. They have therefore become more real than the myth they pretended to embody, more real than the reality that they were supposed to represent." Pierre Restany in Exhibition Catalogue, Venice, XXXII Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte di Venezia, 1964, pp. 108 & 109