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