- Venue
- The Ropewalk
- Starts
- Saturday, September 10, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, October 9, 2011
- Address
- The Ropewalk Maltkiln Road Barton upon Humber North Lincolnshire DN18 5JT
- Location
- East Midlands
Sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was a compulsive collector, a jumbler of icons and a pioneer of Pop Art. In this touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery his ability to transform the mundane into images that zap with electric eclecticism and impress with graphic complexity is demonstrates in a series of 50 screen prints and photolithographs 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 Holywood. The artist’s friend and sometime collaborator, J G Ballard, described General Dynamic F.U.N. as “a unique guidebook to the electric garden or our minds.”
