Erró

From the late nineteen fifties until the early sixties and after a long period dominated by abstraction, there appeared a new generation of artists with an interest in creating pure figurative forms to portray the consumer society. This genre arose at the same time in the United States and Europe, creating personal, cold, distant images bereft of psychological expressiveness whose most important representative in Iceland was Erró. In 1950, Erró made post-Dada collages that later led him to make large-format works characterised by his concern for issues connected with the narrative process of art, so that he established, from a novel compositive axis, dialogues with painting and the different elements depicted inherent in social, cultural, political, historical and other spheres, in other words, elements that he took out of their usual context and placed on canvas. For that reason, this exhibition organised in collaboration with the Sala Alcalá 31 in Madrid, which is Erró’s first anthological exhibition in Spain, will enable the visitor to discover the technique, composition and themes that configure the unique critical vision that characterises Erró’s oeuvre.