Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Eduardo Paolozzi, Collaging Culture, July – October 2013 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 10, p. 17);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 30 July 2019;
London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Eduardo Paolozzi: Hollow Gods, Sculpture and Colllage 1946 – 1960, 17 October – 13 December 2019;
London, Dellasposa Gallery, Tales from the Colony Rooms: Art and Bohemia, 15 September – 13 December 2020
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 moved to 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.’
