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Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella — Il grido della città
Mimmo Rotella

Il grido della città

1998

This decollage work appropriates and manipulates urban posters to construct a visual commentary on metropolitan life and social critique. By systematically tearing and reassembling found poster fragments, Rotella transforms commercial and public imagery into a vehicle for artistic protest against cultural stagnation. The layered composition reveals the archaeological strata of the city's visual environment, where successive advertisements create an unintended palimpsest of consumer and political messaging. Rather than employing the posters for aesthetic composition alone, the artist harnesses their symbolic and content value to articulate a position against societal complacency. The work exemplifies Decollage as a method of material subversion, where destruction and recombination become acts of creative resistance and reimagination.

Medium
Decollage on canvas
Dimensions

Notes

Spotted at Cardi Gallery (MiArt 2026 collectors preview — booth A06-08).

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Mimmo Rotella, Il grido della città, 1998

This decollage work appropriates and manipulates urban posters to construct a visual commentary on metropolitan life and social critique. By systematically tearing and reassembling found poster fragments, Rotella transforms commercial and public imagery into a vehicle for artistic protest against cultural stagnation. The layered composition reveals the archaeological strata of the city's visual environment, where successive advertisements create an unintended palimpsest of consumer and political messaging. Rather than employing the posters for aesthetic composition alone, the artist harnesses their symbolic and content value to articulate a position against societal complacency. The work exemplifies Decollage as a method of material subversion, where destruction and recombination become acts of creative resistance and reimagination.

Medium
Decollage on canvas
Dimensions
130 x 164 cm
Year
1998
Seen at
Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy

Related themes

Assemblage, Process, Political, Conceptual, Layered, Mixed Media, Subversion, Collage, Canvas, Post-War, Gestural, Urban, Italian, Material Process, Decollage, Appropriation, Social Critique, Found Objects, Contemporary, Photomechanical

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