Zero Energy Experiment Pile (Z.E.E.P.)
About this artwork
Paolozzi has often been labelled the ‘Godfather of Pop Art’. Indeed, his prints from the late 1960s and early 1970s are typical of the brash, colourful style and the everyday subject matter associated with Pop. ‘Z.E.E.P.’, a series of six prints, presents a bold assortment of colours, magazine images, diagrams and comic-strips. Its printing process – screenprint on Perspex – is very unusual and stresses Pop Art’s debt to commercial printmaking rather than to traditional fine art. Paolozzi’s innovative and unorthodox attitude toward printmaking techniques made him a figure of major importance in this field.
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artist:Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) Scottish
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title:Zero Energy Experiment Pile (Z.E.E.P.)
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date created:1970
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materials:Six screenprints and lithographs on paper
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measurements:Each: 84.00 x 60.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by the artist 1994
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accession number:GMA 3839
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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...