Erró
Erró
Icelandic, born in 1932
With their overabundance of images and colours, Erró's works confuse the gaze by attacking it with a critical mass of information. Through his collage technique, the Icelandic artist has developed an aesthetic of saturation. Superimposing many references - particularly from cartoons and popular culture - this “visual discourse” questions, often humorously, the myths and quirks of the modern world.
Considered one of the leading proponents of the Narrative Figuration movement of the 1960s - exploring “everyday mythologies” and highlighting the “precious movement of life”, in the words of Gérard Gassio-Talabot - Erró develops a vibrant, unique and critical artistic language. For him, “painting is the pleasure of contradiction, the joy of being alone against the world, the delight of provocation”.
His work, including Foodscape (1964), is part of, and was shown for the first time by, the Pinault Collection in 2009 at the "Mapping the Studio" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.
Considered one of the leading proponents of the Narrative Figuration movement of the 1960s - exploring “everyday mythologies” and highlighting the “precious movement of life”, in the words of Gérard Gassio-Talabot - Erró develops a vibrant, unique and critical artistic language. For him, “painting is the pleasure of contradiction, the joy of being alone against the world, the delight of provocation”.
His work, including Foodscape (1964), is part of, and was shown for the first time by, the Pinault Collection in 2009 at the "Mapping the Studio" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.
