The 100th anniversary of Mimmo Rotella's birth celebrated in Catanzaro and Rome

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Mimmo Rotella ( Catanzaro, 1918 - Milan, 2006), the Calabrian artist and inventor of décollage who died in 2006, his hometown of Catanzaro will open the doors of the House of Memory for the exhibition “Mimmo Rotella in the City.” The exhibition will open, therefore, on Oct. 7, with opening at 6 p.m., and will remain open until Jan. 31, 2019.

The exhibition aims to emphasize the link between the artist and his homeland, and the thematic library kept in the House of Memory will also be enriched for the occasion. The exhibition itinerary of the show will allow to identify the main techniques used by Rotella: from décollage, invented in Rome in the early 1950s, to photographic carryovers made between Paris and New York, to artypos created between Paris and Milan.

Maria Francesca Corigliano, regional councillor for Culture, said, "The attention paid to the figure of Mimmo Rotella, one hundred years after his death, is a tribute that the Regional Council pays to one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, in collaboration with the family and the institutes that cultural working in his memory. There is no doubt that Rotella represents the consecration of Calabria in the world of contemporary art, and it is important that the artist first wanted to leave a mark in his homeland by establishing the House of Memory."
Catanzaro will not be the only city to celebrate Rotella: Rome will also hold, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, a monographic retrospective to be held from October 30, 2018 to February 10, 2019.

Corigliano, in this regard, stressed, “The realization of two exhibition moments, in Catanzaro and Rome, allows us to live the celebrations of the artist’s centenary by looking at his training in Calabria and his definitive success in the national and international sphere, as the review hosted in Rome will demonstrate.”

Pictured: Mimmo Rotella in 1975 on the cover of his “Phonetic Poems.”

The 100th anniversary of Mimmo Rotella's birth celebrated in Catanzaro and Rome

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