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Torn advertising posters with colourful images and lettering are familiar to us from our fleeting perception in everyday life, for torn posters (Italian: 'manifesti lacerati'), which are charming and at the same time a little run-down, are omnipresent in the modern city.

Even the beginnings of Rotella's work were marked by protest against a society that had lost its enthusiasm for grandiose changes, whose art was too petit-bourgeois and too self-centred. The technique of tearing down beyond recognition original pictorial contexts has been used by Rotella since he visited an …