Mimmo Rotella *
(Catanzaro 1918–2006 Milan)
Mitica Marilyn, 2002, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, décollage on canvas, 105 x 95 cm, framed
This work is registered in the Fondazione Mimmo Rotella, Milan and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Provenance:
Spirale Milano Art dealer, Milan
European Private Collection

Beauty is a question of thought and the urge to create it …What does futile mean? So is a poem futile, is putting four words in a line futile? I do not think so. I think, as I said before, that the deep emotions in my life have come from artists, certainly not nature. Or nature as well, but elaborated mentally, intellectually. In fact I think art is the least futile thing there is…

Conversation between Sergio Givove and Alighiero Boetti in Che cosa sia la bellezza non so, Edited by M. Bonuomo and E. Cicelyn, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, 1991