Mimmo Rotella is the artist who taught images to breathe again.

In front of his décollage works, posters are no longer advertisements: they are history resurfacing. Layers of paper, scraps of cinema, faces that come back to light like archaeological finds of modernity.

By tearing posters from city walls, Rotella transformed an instinctive gesture into language. The sharp sound of tearing becomes rhythm, matter, criticism. Within those tears lies the speed of the world, desire, consumption, and their inevitable fragility.
Marilyn, Loren, the icons of the American dream: they all reappear as if seen through a memory, or through the very skin of the city.

His career is part of Nouveau Réalisme, dialoguing with Pop Art, but remaining unyielding: deeply Italian, visceral, urban. Rotella observes, tears, recomposes, and in doing so gives new meaning to what we thought we knew.

Today, his works are housed in international museums and continue to inspire the way we see things. Because every fragment, in his hands, is a world that does not want to be forgotten