CHARTARotella
Born in Cantanzaro in 1918, Mimmo Rotella revolutionized Italian art in the postwar period, with his ruptures of found urban materials such as advertising posters, an activity that eventually gained the name “affichism,” and which allied him with the Nouveaux Réalistes in France (Arman, Christo, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri and Jean Tinguely). These early compositions were primarily abstract, but in the early 1960s he began to feature images of movie stars and consumer goods, developing a more overt critique. Simultaneously, Rotella developed a form of sound poetry that he called “epistaltic” poetry. This essential volume is one of the few catalogues to document all the different phases of Mimmo Rotella's career, from the décollages of the 1950s to the large compositions he created from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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