ERRÓ.
In fine| N° d'inventaire | 31689 |
| Format | 21 x 29 |
| Détails | 220 p., publisher's hardcover, bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782382030738 |
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by Galerie Strouk Paris, in its two spaces at 2 avenue Matignon and 5 rue du Mail, from March 11 to April 23, 2022. Bilingual French-English.
A pioneer of the Narrative Figuration movement, Erró is both pop and baroque, he wants to play with images, diverting them from their banal everyday life to insert them into a meticulously prepared context.
It all began in the late 1950s with scissors and glue... Advertisements, newspapers, posters, political propaganda, comics, he collected everything he saw, everything he read. He cut, assembled, and composed a collage like a sketch of the painting to come.
What interests him above all is our visual and political culture. From Mao Zedong to the Gulf War, he recounts what everyone knows and can recognize... the figures of despots, the world and its conflicts, the war of images.
In 1963, he arrived in New York and began the Scapes series , an uninterrupted flow of images that saturate the surface of the painting. Thus, an infinitely complex narrative is established, leaving the viewer free to interpret. "Painting is a way of trying to discover the meaning of a confused world," Erró tells us.
At almost 90 years old, Erró is taking over the Galerie Strouk by returning to his favorite subjects: the superheroes of American pop culture, Japanese manga and, as always, his tributes to Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso.
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by Galerie Strouk Paris, in its two spaces at 2 avenue Matignon and 5 rue du Mail, from March 11 to April 23, 2022. Bilingual French-English.
A pioneer of the Narrative Figuration movement, Erró is both pop and baroque, he wants to play with images, diverting them from their banal everyday life to insert them into a meticulously prepared context.
It all began in the late 1950s with scissors and glue... Advertisements, newspapers, posters, political propaganda, comics, he collected everything he saw, everything he read. He cut, assembled, and composed a collage like a sketch of the painting to come.
What interests him above all is our visual and political culture. From Mao Zedong to the Gulf War, he recounts what everyone knows and can recognize... the figures of despots, the world and its conflicts, the war of images.
In 1963, he arrived in New York and began the Scapes series , an uninterrupted flow of images that saturate the surface of the painting. Thus, an infinitely complex narrative is established, leaving the viewer free to interpret. "Painting is a way of trying to discover the meaning of a confused world," Erró tells us.
At almost 90 years old, Erró is taking over the Galerie Strouk by returning to his favorite subjects: the superheroes of American pop culture, Japanese manga and, as always, his tributes to Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso.