Erró
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Title: Mickey
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm
Year: 2003
Edition : 200 signed and numbered copies
Reference: E0001
PVP: 500 €
About Erró
1932: Guðmundur Guðmundsson, better known as Erró, born in Ólafsvík, Iceland, on July 19, is a postmodernist painter.
1949 – 1952: Studied art in Norway and Italy, and resided in Paris, Thailand and the island of Formentera most of his life.
1958: Moves to Paris and meets the artists of the surrealist movement.
He is co-founder of the pictorial movement of Narrativa Figuração in France. Many artists participated in the emergence of this artistic style such as Valerio Adami, Hervé Télémaque, Peter Klasen.
His universe is made of comics, bringing together cartoon figures and historical despots.
It creates a visual shock, mixing a Walt Disney hero and a dictator.
His drawings are decidedly engaged and approach political and historical themes, to denounce and criticize events.
His works have marked the history of art and are present in museums around the world and serve as references in narrative figuration and collages.
If you enjoyed Erró’s work, you might also be interested in Cohen Fusé, Alfredo Luz and Francisco Aritzia’s work