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March 7, 2006
"Tearing up posters from the walls is the only compensation, the only means to protest against a society that has lost the joy of fabulous transformations..." says Mimmo Rotella
Mimmo Rotella, Omaggio a Marilyn , decollage
Rotella's decollages are a creative re-appropriation of urban images such as the advertisement posters, which because of their redundancy, fail to make a lasting impression anymore. These "Dadaist" collages of movie posters or advertisements as an objet trouve which have had certain details developed and reworked.
Mimmo Rotella, Cinema Scope, 2000, decollage
These images are the surface of the walls of our cities, and they can be read and interpreted as the images disclosing the history and mythology of our consumer society.
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