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october 06, 2020 - Cardi Gallery
Cardi Gallery presents "Mimmo Rotella Month, a calendar of events dedicated to the italian artist"
Wednesday October 7th, 2020
from 6:00 pm (BST)
DIGITAL CONVERSATION
Antonella Soldaini, Mimmo Rotella Institute, Milan
Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
October from 7th to 16th, 2020
FRIEZE MASTER 2020 VIEWING ROOM
October 31st, 2020
MAYFAIR GALLERY PUBLICATION AWARD
catalogue of the exhibition MIMMO ROTELLA. Beyond Décollage: Photo emulsions and artypos, 1963 – 1980 (curated by Antonella Soldaini)
From October 30th to November 4th, 2020
TEFAF ONLINE NEW YORK 2020
Cardi Gallery | London is proud to announce the Mimmo Rotella Month. Over the entire month of October 2020, we will feature a busy calendar of in-person and online events exclusively dedicated to the practice of the visionary Italian artist #mimmorotella (Catanzaro, 1918 – Milan, 2006).
On October 7th, at 6:00 pm #cardigallery | London will celebrate Mimmo Rotella’s 102th birth anniversary by hosting a digital conversation on the artist’s practice. The conversation will focus on the mechanical works he produced throughout the 1960s and ‘70s. Antonella Soldaini, Director of the #mimmorotella Institute of Milan and curator of the exhibition and co-author (with Veronica Locatelli) of the accompanying publication, will be in dialogue with Elizabeth Mangini, Associate Professor and Chair of History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts of San Francisco. The pair will discuss Rotella’s incredibly rich visual vocabulary and his appropriation of images of cultural icons that span from the glitz of Hollywood and Cinecittà’s stars, the colourful realm of mass-produced advertising, to the historic and traumatic events of his time. The talk will also address Rotella’s rejection of painting through his pioneering use of mechanical - photographic and typographic - reproduction processes to print onto traditional art materials, establishing him as one of the earliest voices of not only the Mec-Art group, but also the #pop Art movement.
Frieze Masters 2020 Viewing Room will open on October 7th (until October 16th). This year, Cardi’s virtual presentation will tie in with the exhibition MIMMO ROTELLA. Beyond Décollage: Photo emulsions and artypos, 1963 – 1980 at #cardigallery | London. Our on-line presentation will feature a solo show of Mimmo Rotella’s works that will include a selection of artypos and photo emulsions, complemented by a rare décollage from 1956. These masterpieces are populated by images from films (La diva, 1963; Venere Imperiale, 1966; Magoo, 1966; Arabesque, La Rivincita, 1967), advertising (Il Traffico, 1965; Tufi, 1972; Le sourire Rama, 1973), the news (L’astronaute, 1966, Italy’s trial, 1979), art historical works (Homage à Velazquez, 1966) and erotica (L’amplesso, 1975).
Cardi Gallery is honoured to announce that an important décollage, Baskerville, 1961, will be included in the Frieze Masters 2020 section Forever, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal.
The catalogue MIMMO ROTELLA. Beyond Décollage: Photo emulsions and artypos, 1963 – 1980 has made its debut as part of the inaugural edition of the Mayfair Gallery Publication Award. The winner of will be announced at the end of October 2020. The 316-page catalogue, created as a companion for our exhibition, presents a selection of installation views at Cardi London and includes scholarly essays examining Rotella’s explorations of Mec-Art media. Although the catalogue focuses on the works included in the show – which have been extensively researched – it also features a selection of further significant works by the artist. We hope the catalogue will serve as the ultimate resource on this previously understudied era in Rotella’s career trajectory.
Mimmo Rotella Month at #cardigallery will close with the presentation of TEFAF Online New York 2020, that will run from October 30th to November 4th. Cardi’s online presentation will feature 8 ½ (1963) a rare photo emulsion on canvas that celebrates the eponymous autobiographical film by the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini, one of the most iconic films of all time. The world of cinema - especially the movies directed by Fellini and the divas of Hollywood classics - are subject of many of Rotella’s photo emulsions.
The exhibition MIMMO ROTELLA. Beyond Décollage: Photo emulsions and artypos, 1963 – 1980, curated by #antonellasoldaini, will continue to be on view at 22 Grafton Street until December 12th. Visitors may safely enjoy the vast selection of over 70 master works on display on five floors of the gallery. The largest collection of works by Rotella ever seen in the UK, the exhibition offers a unique window into an extremely significant body of work within the artist’s practice.
The exhibition is on view from Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm and on Saturday from 11am to 5pm.
Venere Imperiale, 1966
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6016x4016, 8MB
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5936x3963, 8MB
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5828x3891, 8MB
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6016x4016, 9MB
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6016x4016, 10MB
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5948x3970, 9MB
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
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