Talk
Behind the Scenes of... General Dynamic F.U.N.
15 Nov 2017
The Amelia
Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Exhibition
General Dynamic F.U.N. Eduardo Paolozzi
3 Nov 2017 – 27 Jan 2018
Event times
See museum opening times
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- The Amelia
- Civic Centre, Mount Pleasant,
- Royal Tunbridge Wells
England - TN1 1JN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus stops out side The Amelia at the War Memorial in the centre of town.
- The Amelia is a 5 minute walk uphill from Tunbridge Wells train station.
Event map
A Hayward Touring exhibition of screen-prints by Eduardo Paolozzi will
open on 27 October as part of a national tour.
About
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005) was one of the pioneers of the pop art movement in the UK. Born in Scotland, Paolozzi was a compulsive collector and a jumbler of icons. The artist, who described himself as 'a wizard in Toytown', transformed the mundane, the derelict and the mass-produced into images that zap with electric eclecticism and impress with their graphic complexity.
Paolozzi's canny alchemy is vividly apparent in General Dynamic F.U.N, a series of fifty screenprints and photolithographs created between 1965 and 1970. Here Paolozzi employs the technologies of mass-reproduction and gorges on its idols – the household names and familiar faces of consumer advertising, high fashion and Hollywood. The artist's friend and sometime collaborator, J.G. Ballard, described General Dynamic F.U.N as a 'unique guidebook to the electric garden of our minds'.
© the artist and DACS A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.
