Beschreibung:

λ  SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI (BRITISH 1924-2005)
RUST AND HUMOUR
Collage
Signed (lower right)
Image: 20 x 16cm (7¾ x 6¼ in.)
Executed in 1960.
Provenance:
Freda Paolozzi and by descent
 
Literature:
E. Paolozzi and J. Reichardt, The History of Nothing and Other Excursions, London, 1977/2023, p. 75 (illus)
 
Created in 1962 the History of Nothing is a twelve minute film of changing sepia and black and white stills put to an equally seemingly random soundtrack of locomotives, aircraft, barking dogs, church bells and Kabuki theatre. It is fundamentally a `Surrealist collage in time'
`The materials from which Paolozzi made these collages... were collected over ten years. At their basis is the idea that in the relationships of such diverse subjects and materials there are always poetic possibilities.
 
The sources of the collages are pages from the 1920s and 1930s German furniture catalogues, travel magazines, exhibition catalogues of ethnic art, and manuals of machinery.' (E. Paolozzi and J. Reichardt, The History of Nothing and Other Excursions, London, 1977/2023, p. 10)
 
"I am interested above all, in investigating the golden ability of the artists to achieve a metamorphosis of quite ordinary things into something wonderful and extraordinary that is neither nonsensical nor morally edifying"
(E. Roditi, Eduardo Paolozzi Dialogues on Art, London, 1960, pp.153-54)
 
 
 
Condition Report:
There are some possible minor areas of glue residue surrounding the lower edge of the collage. Otherwise there are no significant condition issues. The work appears to be in good original condition.
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