Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Eduardo Paolozzi, Collaging Culture, July – October 2013 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 8);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London | Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 23 April 2019;
London, Royal Society of Sculptors, Parallel Lines: Sculpture and Drawing, 13 May – 13 July 2019;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London | Forward Facing, 30 July 2019 and ongoing
Eduardo Paolozzi began collaging found imagery of machine parts and classical statuary having seen the Surrealist collages of Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters. In 1947, he movedto Paris with the proceeds of his first one-man exhibition at the Mayor Gallery. He met avant-garde artists including Arp, Giacometti, Léger, and Tzara, and was influenced by the development of ‘Art Brut’ characterised by the work of Dubuffet. Using American magazines given to him by former G.I.s, Paolozzi began a series of collages created from the glamorous advertisements of models, domestic appliances and cars that he described as an ‘extension of radical Surrealism.’
