Paolozzi Power at Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries

Eduardo Paolozzi, 'An Empire of Silly Statistics… A Fake War for Public Relations', photo lithograph
Eduardo Paolozzi, 'An Empire of Silly Statistics… A Fake War for Public Relations', photo lithograph

Title:
Eduardo Paolozzi: General Dynamic F.U.N.

Times:
Tue - Sat 10:00 - 17:00

From: 23 Mar 2024

To: 11 May 2024

Venue:
Gracefield Arts Centre
28 Edinburgh Road
Dumfries
Dumfries & Galloway
DG1 1JQ

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This touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery, with added pieces from the Gracefield Collection, showcases the talents of the Edinburgh-born Pop Art master Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2001) in the centenary year of his birth. 

Created between 1965 and 1970, this series illustrates how the self-styled ‘wizard in Toytown’ employed the technologies of mass reproduction to gorge on its idols – household names and familiar faces of consumer advertising, fashion and 1960s Hollywood. A compulsive collector and jumbler of icons, Paolozzi is equally revered for his kaleidoscopic print projects and for transforming the mundane, the derelict and the mass-produced into mechanistic sculptures.

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