MIMMO ROTELLA* (Catanzaro 1918 - 2006 Milan)

About Auction

Live

Viennese Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Modern A...

By Widder Auctions

Nov 28, 2022

Set Reminder 2022-11-28 10:00:00 2022-11-28 10:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : Viennese Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Modern Art https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/widder-auctions/viennese-art-nouveau-expressionism-modern-art-10414
Widder Auctions office@widderauktionen.com

View Full Catalog (274)

• Lot Description
  MIMMO ROTELLA*
  (Catanzaro 1918 - 2006 Milan)
  Elvis, 1995
  paper print painted with acrylic/plexiglass, 184 x 57.3 cm
  signed Rotella
  provenance: Aguttes auctions, Paris 2008, International private collection
  
  ESTIMATE #Euro 10.000 - 20.000
  STARTING PRICE #Euro 10.000
  
  Mimmo Rotella/Domenico Rotella was an Italian artist. Rotella graduated in art from the Naples Academy of Art in 1944. After his art studies, Rotella began with representational paintings and soon experimented with expressive abstract paintings. In 1951/1952 he lived in Kansas City on a Fulbright grant, where he produced murals and recorded phonetic poems ("epostaltici"). In the U.S. he became acquainted with the works of the then current American artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1953 he discovered the aesthetic appeal of torn-off posters (MANIFESTI LACERATI). These torn-off posters, decollages, a European counter-position to Pop Art, are in the tradition of the Cubists and Kurt Schwitters and constitute the core of Rotella's work. Inspired by Rotella, other artists also used this method (François Dufrêne, Raymond Hais; the early Wolf Vostell). He exhibited at the "Salon des Réalistes Nouvelles" in Paris and joined the Nouveau Réalisme group (Pierre Restany) in 1961. Rotella became acquainted with the lively art scene of 1950s France; in addition, American-style Abstract Expressionism and Informal painting influenced his further career; he created assemblages with everyday objects such as beverage caps, ropes, cords. In the late 1960s, Rotella turned to typographic works (Artypo works), to work on magazine advertisements in the early 1970s. If in the 1970s he had rolled up posters and enclosed them in Plexiglas cubes, in the 1980s he began to paste over posters with neutral paper. In 1989, Rotella stayed in Berlin at the invitation of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). While Rotella initially transferred posters or layers of posters from billboards to canvas ("double décollage"), tearing off sections and partially painting over them, he later switched to pasting poster backs onto the canvas. In addition to posters, he often used parts of the metal or wooden bases of billboards in public spaces. Rotella varied his method in many ways, used very different materials (up to the airplane wing) and often painted over his works. In 1958 Mimmo Rotella created paintings from movie posters (series Cinecittà), in 2005 twelve portraits of Marilyn Monroe.
  
  PLEASE NOTE:
  The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked #), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
• Shipping Info

  • We will send you the invoice shortly after the auction. As soon as we have recieved the amount, the art can be picked up at Johannesgasse 9-13, 1010 Vienna. Please note that the buyer is responsible for pick-up and shipping of the lot. Should you wish to ship your items, please contact: Mailboxes Email: oper@mbe-co.at Tel: 01 5128855 Please note that storage fees may apply, should the pieces not be picked up within 14 days after invoicing for domestic and 28 days for international transportation. Our team will be happy to assist you with any further information at office@widderauktionen.com or at 0043 676 555 66 10.

• Buyer's Premium
  • 24.00 %