Mimmo Rotella is an Italian artist best known at the international level for the invention of the décollage technique in 1953. During the Sixties he focused his attention on popular images, coming closer first to Pop Art and then assuming a leading role in the Nouveau Réalisme group moviment; in the following years he continued his experimentation in brand new techniques. Some oh his masterpieces are collected in leading national and international museums, such as: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, and MACRO, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome; MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; Museo del Novecento and Gallerie d’Italia, Milan; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Museo Civico di Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Menil Collection, Houston; LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Mannheim; LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Les Abbattoirs de Toulouse; Tel Aviv Museum; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.