(Catanzaro 1918–2006 Milan)
Sezione, 1963, signed Rotella, décollage on canvas, 63 x 43 cm, framed

Photo certificate signed by the artist, Milan, 24 February 2003

Provenance:
F. Moglia Collection, Milan
Anfiteatro Arte, Padua (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Padua, Racconti possibili, Anfiteatro Arte, 9 October - 29 November 2008, exh. cat. p. 78 with ill.

Literature:
T. Trini, Rotella, Giampaolo Prearo (ed.), Milan 1974 with ill.
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella, Skira (ed.), Milan 2005, p. 248, no. 245 with ill.

Posters are not important to me as such, but because of their topicality. This means that their colours acquire new meaning (and today it is “images” that have taken on a new meaning for me) since they manage to introduce a true novelty in my everyday relationship with the street.
And it is the creative stimulus of colour that spurs my desire to lacerate and the entire amalgam of events that is finally contained in my painting. Because the laceration I perform in the street, when the poster appears to me as a crucial moment in nature, is totally different from the laceration that takes place in my studio. The latter respects not only a natural order but corresponds to my need for a vision and the creation of something that is a metaphor of the world, even from the point of view of a ready-made.
Mimmo Rotella