The Schirn Kunsthalle Opens an Exhibition of "Erró: Portrait and Landscape"

artwork: Erró - "Inscape", 1968 - Oil on canvas - 200 x 300 cm. - Private collection, Southern Germany. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. On view at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt in "Erró: Portrait and Landscape" from October 6th until January 8th 2012


Frankfurt, Germany  – The Schirn Kunsthalle is proud to present “Erró: Portrait and Landscape”, on view at the museum from October 6th through January 8th 2012. The Icelandic artist Erró is one of the great solitary figures of twentieth- century art. At once Pop and Baroque, eye-catching and narrative, critical of society and humorous, moral and inscrutable, over the past fifty years he has produced an opulent, unmistakable oeuvre that resists all categorization. His critical narrative collages reproduce in painting combinations of pictorial elements from various popular sources to create eloquent, often disturbing tableaux. As reflections on great social themes such as politics, war, sexuality, science, and art, these dense visual arrangements seem to create a comprehensive atlas of images of the modern world.

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