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ERRO (né en 1932)
Oil on canvas, signed and dated on reverse
38 x 391/2 in.
Born 1932 in Iceland, Gundmundur Gundmunsson, known as Errö, studied painting at the Reykjavik Academy, where he learned the technique of cut paper. From 1953 onwards, the painter, who by then had become a teacher, travelled to Spain, Germany, France and Italy. He quickly refined his style, using scissors to take diverse, sometimes contradictory images borrowed from modern painting, comic strips, the press, advertising, scientific treatises or propaganda posters.
Gundmunsson painted some forms early in his career but definitively gave them up in 1964 to make his characteristic collages, using images drawn from mass culture. This led to very tight, almost suffocating compositions: various figures, real or imaginary but always symbolic, cover the surfaces. Superheroes rub shoulders with comic strip characters, who are themselves neighbours of dictators. Gundmunsson's works thus echo the visual world of modern everyday life, whose traces he methodically collects, reassembles and hybridises.
Oil on canvas, signed and dated on reverse
38 x 391/2 in.
Born 1932 in Iceland, Gundmundur Gundmunsson, known as Errö, studied painting at the Reykjavik Academy, where he learned the technique of cut paper. From 1953 onwards, the painter, who by then had become a teacher, travelled to Spain, Germany, France and Italy. He quickly refined his style, using scissors to take diverse, sometimes contradictory images borrowed from modern painting, comic strips, the press, advertising, scientific treatises or propaganda posters.
Gundmunsson painted some forms early in his career but definitively gave them up in 1964 to make his characteristic collages, using images drawn from mass culture. This led to very tight, almost suffocating compositions: various figures, real or imaginary but always symbolic, cover the surfaces. Superheroes rub shoulders with comic strip characters, who are themselves neighbours of dictators. Gundmunsson's works thus echo the visual world of modern everyday life, whose traces he methodically collects, reassembles and hybridises.