Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 American film starring Paul Newman. Mimmo Rotella used the film poster to do this SeriDécollage ripped by hand. Memorable interpretation of Paul Newman that covers the role of the protagonist, initially destined to James Dean. He is the italo-American myth of Rocky Graziano, champion of boxing that resurfaces from the slums of New York discovering himself. Winning of two Oscar prizes, for the photo of Joseph Ruttenberg and for the scenography of Cedric Gibson, Malcom Brown, Edwin Willis, Keogh Gleason, brilliant directoring of the great Robert Wise and aggressive and convincing interpretation of Paul Newman. A beautiful film that tells the history of Rocco Barbella, drawn by the biography of the champion of boxe, known with the name of Rocky Graziano.

Seridecollage signed and numbered in original by the artist. Limited edition in 120 works with arabic numerals, 50 works in roman numerals and 20 artistic test. STAMP of Mimmo Rotella Foundation in the lower left. The work is published on catalogue by Elena Pontiggia, p. 90

Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro 1918 - Milan 2006) is a famous italian artist of the IXX century.

In 1941 he had to take part in the War and when he returned home he graduated in 1944 at the artistic high school of Naples and then started to teach art in Catanzaro.
In 1945 he was in Rome where he came into contact with the Avan-garde movement and the artists Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato.
From 1947 he has the first contacts with foreign art, expecially the french and the north american arts. Thanks to a Fullbright Fondation grant he went in the USA as an Artist in Residence, in the Kansas University.

This american experience allowed Rotella to discover e know all the most important artists of the artistic trends of those years. After a short stop in his artistic production, he started with the Decollages. Mimmo Rotella took all the comunicative strenght of the commercial and added on posters, and then he put them together on the canvas. His first exposition of this kind of artworks was in Rome, at the exhibition “Esposizione dell’arte attuale”.
This new style culminates in the Cinecittà series, made in 1962, and inspired by the celebrities and myths of the italian and Hollywood movies. Marilyn Monroe was one of his most important subject.

In 1964 he exposed in the Biennale of Venice and in 1965 in the Quadriennale of Rome.

With the aim to collect the works and documents relating to his artistic life, in 2000, by his will, was formed Mimmo Rotella Foundation.
In 2004 he received an honoris causa degree in Architecture at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria.

Mimmo Rotella died in 2006. His works are in many museums and in the major Italian and foreign collections.

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