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14/2/2010

Erro'

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Curator Christian Briend head curator Musée national d'art moderne Cabinet d'art graphique

From the 15 February to 24 May 2010, the Galerie d'art graphique at the Centre Pompidou will be celebrating the Icelandic artist Erró with a one-man show dedicated to his collages. Erró, 50 Years of Collage, will present this lesser known, but nonetheless original, and significant side of the artist's work.
The Musée national d'art moderne will exhibit a recent donation from the artist of 66 collages alongside their standing collection of his cut and paste work.

From recent work to examples dating as far back as 1959, Erró's collage draws inspiration from many sources, but principally from the press. He often marries the faces of models cut out of women's magazines, notably in the Méca-make-up' series, with mechanical images of cameras or car engines, American comics and Chinese, Russian or Cuban propaganda images, set against classical masterpieces, scientific journals and advertisements.

Visually shocking, Erró's provocative, troubling works play with time and space with tongue-in-cheek humour. His work is explicitly political and critical of war (Vietnam and the American invasion of Iraq), totalitarian regimes (Cuba, China and Russia) and the consumer society. The space race also inspired a number of collages where cosmonauts stand side by side with Ingres' odalisques.

The exhibition is centred around the five themes that dominate Erró's work: 'Mécacollages', Conquests', 'Politics', 'The Arts' and 'Comics'.

The catalogue Erró, 50 Years of Collages, written by Christian Briend, curator of the exhibition, constitutes a reference work for the history of collage.

Alongside the exhibition, the Centre Pompidou has organised a workshop with the artist, as part of the Family Sunday events programme, on the 4 April from 3-6 p.m.

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