About this artwork
This collage is composed of fragments of screenprints, as well as tickets and scraps of magazines and drawings. Paolozzi’s use of collage reflects the way we flick through magazines, switch television channels or, increasingly, how we use social media. As a boy, growing up in Leith in the 1930s, Paolozzi collected magazines and sweet wrappers, a habit he continued into adulthood. The appropriation of everyday materials runs through almost everything he did as an artist.
Updated January 2024
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artist:Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) Scottish
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title:Collage
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date created:1953
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materials:Collage with silkscreen and watercolour, ink and gouache on paper
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measurements:64.50 x 79.50 x 4.8cm (framed)
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credit line:Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
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accession number:GMA 4026
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi
Of Italian descent, Paolozzi was born in Leith near Edinburgh. He studied in Edinburgh and London and spent two years in Paris from 1947, where he produced enigmatic, bronze sculptures reminiscent of those by Giacometti. During the same period he made a series of dada and surrealist-inspired...