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february 29, 2020 - Cardi Gallery
Cardi Gallery present Mimmo Rotella - Beyond Décollage Photo Emulsions and Artypos
I felt the need for self-renewal, the need to discover something new, and the 'reportage' emerged. More than a year has already passed since I began... to reintegrate the reality atomized into so many little pieces of paper, using photographic clippings
(Mimmo Rotella, 1965)
Curated by Antonella Soldaini, in collaboration with the Mimmo Rotella Institute, Cardi Gallery hosts the most comprehensive exhibition of Rotella's practice ever seen in the UK with 74 works which will fill all five floors of the gallery's historic townhouse in Grafton Street, Mayfair. This is also the only exhibition to include such a full selection of the artist's important Photo Emulsions and Artypos from the 1960s through the 1980s. Cardi's exhibition also coincides with the publication of Volume II (1962 – 1973) of the #mimmorotella Catalogue Raisonné by Germano Celant, which will be launched in the coming months.
Perhaps best known for his Décollages made of distressed street posters ripped from the walls of Rome, Beyond Décollage establishes #mimmorotella (1918 – 2006) as a major pioneer of the Pop Art movement, who worked simultaneously with Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition clearly shows how the visionary Italian artist was amongst the first to use a photographic process to print a kaleidoscope of iconic images onto traditional materials associated with conventional art, such as canvas and paper.
Rotella created an art form that would chronicle his time and marry the power of iconic film and popular imagery to the history of painting. He did so by inventing new techniques to transform the traditional canvas into a photographic surface, a space for layering, printing and exploring what an image could be. The artist experimented with developing photographs on canvas in his Photo Emulsions and with layering and overprinting found images with newsprint and all manner of popular media in his Artypos. These mixed media works convey Italy's emerging post-war consumer culture as a multifaceted montage. His appropriation of images of cultural icons – from La Dolce Vita to Jacqueline Kennedy, from the first space walk to the kidnapping of Aldo Moro - veer from the playful and colourful to the historic and traumatic. Rotella's works create a portrait of Italy during its economic boom as it rebranded itself with modernity in the post-war decades.
8 e mezzo, 1963
1907x2330, 3MB
Arabesque, 1965
2653x3102, 4MB
Autoportrait, 1968
1908x2853, 4MB
Dangerous plight, 1977 (1968-69)
1852x2640, 3MB
Fiori, 1974-1975
1852x1840, 4MB
Il martire, 1980
2760x3873, 7MB
Interno, 1965
2200x1596, 10MB
Italy's Trial, 1979
1814x2391, 2MB
Jacqueline Kennedy, 1963
4017x2818, 12MB
John Chamberlain, 1968
2500x2128, 14MB
La diva, 1963
1887x2488, 3MB
La dolce vita, 1963
1821x2894, 4MB
La rivincita, 1967
1967x1911, 2MB
L'astronaute, 1966
1869x2408, 4MB
Le chaud sourire, 1973
2297x1876, 3MB
Linea B1, 1963
2232x2362, 1MB
Lo schermo, 1965-1966
2029x2589, 5MB
Lufthansa, 1979
2000x2400, 10MB
Magoo, 1966
2851x1878, 3MB
Mythologies, 1966
1930x2039, 3MB
Panorama politico, 1974 (1970)
2666x1906, 4MB
Parmigiano, 1973
1866x2004, 3MB
Saluti da S. Pietro, 1965
2641x1884, 5MB
Struttura 1, 1975
2289x1918, 3MB
Untitled, 1963
2917x1366, 3MB
Untitled, 1966
2501x1859, 3MB
Venere Imperiale, 1966
2260x3136, 8MB
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