September 3, 2009

Mimmo Rotella


Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella
, (October 7, 1918 – January 8, 2006), was an Italian artist and poetbest known for his works of décollage and psychogeographics, made from torn advertising posters.



Décollage, in art, is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image[1]. Examples include inimage or etrécissements and excavations. A similar technique is thelacerated poster, a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath.
























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