Mimmo Rotella

“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 atomised into so many little pieces of paper, using photographic clippings”. (Mimmo Rotella, 1965)

Cardi Gallery London is proud to present MIMMO ROTELLA. Beyond Décollage: Photo Emulsions and Artypos, 1963-1980. Perhaps best known for his Décollages made of distressed street posters ripped from the walls of Rome, “Beyond Décollage” establishes Mimmo Rotella (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.