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.




