Twenty years after the death of Mimmo Rotella (1918–2006), Palazzo Ducale in Genoa dedicates a major retrospective to one of the absolute protagonists of Italian and international art of the 20th century. The exhibition Mimmo Rotella. 1945–2005, curated by Alberto Fiz and realized in collaboration with the Mimmo Rotella Foundation, retraces over sixty years of the artist's activity, restoring the complexity and relevance of a research that radically marked the relationship between art, image, and contemporary society.

The exhibition analyzes Rotella's entire creative span, from the early abstract experiments of the post-war period, influenced by surrealism, to the New Icons of recent years, created through collages and overpaintings in which the media universe is once again subjected to a process of deconstruction and resignification. Over a hundred works from museums, foundations, and international public and private collections make up a path articulated in five thematic sections, allowing the rediscovery of the innovative power of a language capable, like few others, of narrating the birth and evolution of the society of image and consumption.