POP art is popping up at at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum as part of a national tour.
A new Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition of screen-prints by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi will be available to view at the gallery between Saturday January 11 and Sunday March 30.
Paolozzi was one of the pioneers of the pop art movement in the UK. Born in Scotland, he was a compulsive collector and a jumbler of icons and he is equally revered for his mechanistic sculptures and his kaleidoscopic print projects.
The artist, who described himself as ‘a wizard in Toytown’, transformed the mundane, the derelict and the mass-produced into images that zap with electric eclecticism and impress with their graphic complexity.
General Dynamic F.U.N, a series of 50 screenprints and photolithographs, was created between 1965 and 1970.
Here Paolozzi employs the technologies of mass-reproduction and gorges on its idols – the household names and familiar faces of consumer advertising, high fashion and Hollywood.
The prints, which bear idiosyncratic titles such as Totems and Taboos of the Nine-to-Five Day; Twenty Traumatic Twinges and Cary Grant as a Male War Bride, do not occupy a rigid sequence but can be assembled and viewed in any order.
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