An important new art project arises from the partnership between Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery and the Mimmo Rotella Foundation.The Forte dei Marmi gallery space in via Carducci 45, from 10 December 2022 to 31 January 2023, will display fifteen works of great historical and artistic value that represent the uniqueness of the expression and the poetics of the Master Mimmo Rotella, one of the greatest exponents of Nouveau Réalisme and Pop Art, whose works are exhibited in all the most important contemporary art museums in the world such as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the MoMA in New York, the National Gallery in Washington and the Tate Modern in London.The exhibition, entitled PRELUDIO, is a preview of the great anthology that will be held from spring to summer in Forte dei Marmi in close collaboration with the Mimmo Rotella Foundation, which will be made up of over one hundred and fifty works and will represent for the city of Versilia the largest art event ever.Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro 1918 – Milan 2006) experimented with the first décollages in 1953, posters torn from the walls and further lacerated in his studio: a unique technique that made him famous and highly appreciated by critics, gallery owners and collectors. A production that makes his works fly from Zurich to London, from New York to Tokyo, from Peru to Mexico. In 1964 he was in Paris and in the same year the Venice Biennale dedicated a personal room to him. Rotella travels all over the world, in 1967 he is in New York where he meets Andy Warhol and is a guest of the artists Jeanne Claude and Christo who, like him, were part of Pierre Restany's Nouveau Réalisme movement.