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october 14, 2019 - Cardi Gallery
Mimmo Rotella
FIAC Stand: A54 form 17 to 20 October 2019
Grand Palais Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Cardi Gallery is pleased to present at #fiac 2019 a museum quality solo exhibition of the great Italian artist Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro, 1918 - Milan, 2006).
The exhibition will focus on the 'Blanks' and 'Sovrapittura' series conceived by Mimmo Rotella in the 1980s and will represent a rare opportunity to see these body of works.
The process leading to the creation of a blank, or covering as it is also known, consists in applying a monochrome tissue paper over a poster, to silence its advertising message. The blanks were exhibited for the first time in January 1981 in Milan, presented by the French critic Pierre Restany who called them "a third fundamental chapter in the language of posters". Applied on canvas or metal sheet, the blanks reach impressive dimensions, marking a breaking point with the old codes of reference of a society challenged by the tensions of the 1970s. From the tissue often some clues emerge of the image below. The artist stated "it is the representation of the end of an image. Behind the blank is the mystery of an image that has become obsolete, the almost invisible presence of a few fragments of this image, that could be described henceforth as 'degraded', like the impression of a metaphysical latency of the image "(Rotella, 1981).
Immediately after the blanks, Rotella approached a new technique: sovrapittura or over-painting. The image, a recognizable icon in the public domain, is still central in his poetry and in the case of over-paintings the artist intervenes with a rough, fast and secure pictorial gesture on integral or torn posters. This way he combines the pictorial praxis - in his most current meaning, influenced by Bad Painting, by the Transavanguardia and by Graffitismo - to the language of décollage that has characterized Rotella's career since the beginning.
"I notice that painting is changing. [...] We must return to a semi-expressionist barbaric painting of rather ugly colors. [...] In short, an anti-painting, a bad painting that then becomes beautiful painting, good painting, strong, brilliant, almost magical"(Rotella, 2002).
The first works thus obtained were exhibited in Parma in the spring of 1986, where the subjects of the canvases presented range from Elvis Presley to Caravaggio, from James Dean to the advertising for Crodino, showing the explosive vitality that characterizes the artist's gaze during the second half of the Eighties.
Mimmo Rotella, Apostolato, 1992
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Mimmo Rotella, Blank-Spleet, 1981
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Mimmo Rotella, Duet, 1999
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Mimmo Rotella, Garus,1988
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