Selasa

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Scotland Office, Dover House, Whitehall

Eduardo Paolozzi was born in Leith, Edinburgh, to Italian parents. During the Second World War he was interned in a camp as a foreign ‘alien’, before serving in the Royal Air Force until 1943. After the War, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art and at the Slade School, London. In 1947, he lived in Paris where he met the sculptor, Alberto Giacometti. Greatly influenced by Dada and Surrealism, he began producing distinctive collages. Returning to London in 1949, Paolozzi taught textile design at the Central School of Art and Design. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a leading exponent of British Pop Art. Paolozzi represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1960. Retrospectives of his work took place at the Tate Gallery (1971), and the National-Galerie Berlin (1975).He was elected a Royal Academician in 1979, appointed Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in 1986, and knighted in 1988. His numerous public commissions include mosaics in Tottenham Court Road Underground Station and Newton, after William Blake, a sculpture for the new British Library (1995).

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

graph paper, collage

Artist

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005)

Title

Selasa

Date

1975

Medium

Collage on graph paper

Dimensions

height: 84.00 cm, width: 59.70 cm

Acquisition

Commissioned from the artist via Editions Alecto, 1975

Inscription

bc: Selasa ; br: Eduardo Paolozzi 1975

GAC number

12219