(Catanzaro 1918-2006 Milan)
Muro, 1958, signed Rotella, titled and dated 1958 on the reverse, Retro d’affiche on cardboard, back of posters, glue, mould and plaster, 55 x 63 cm, framed
Photo certificate signed by the artist
The work is registered in the Fondazione Mimmo Rotella, Milan, 2014, archive no. 1630 RA 958/000.
Provenance:
Galerie Reckermann Collection, Cologne (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection
Exhibited:
Rennes, Murmures des Rues. François Dufrêne Raymond Hains Mimmo Rotella Jacques de la Villeglé Wolf Vostell, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and FRAC Bretagne, Galerie du TNB, 20 April - 30 June 1994 (label on the reverse)
Literature:
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella. Catalogo ragionato, vol. II, p. 636, no. 1958 153 with ill.
Tearing posters off the walls is the only compensation, the only way to protest against a society that has lost the joy of fabulous transformations…
M. Rotella, 1958