Lot Essay
The present sideboard is a collaboration by the Italian artist and poet Mimmo Rotella and the designer Marco Ferreri, who created the sideboard, while Rotella signed for the visual imagery. The picture, printed by a sublimation process to zinc-plated steel which is subsequently sheared, folded and molded onto the sideboard, is a digital illustration of a work by Mimmo Rotella incorporating a Vanity Fair magazine cover of Penelope Cruz.
Mimmo Rotella, a member of the Nouveau Réalisme group, was one of the main proponents of décollage, a process in which an image is created by cutting, tearing or otherwise reducing an image, in this case the magazine cover.
Marco Ferreri's works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the collection of the FNAC, Paris.
Mimmo Rotella, a member of the Nouveau Réalisme group, was one of the main proponents of décollage, a process in which an image is created by cutting, tearing or otherwise reducing an image, in this case the magazine cover.
Marco Ferreri's works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the collection of the FNAC, Paris.