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Erró

Erró

Iceland • 1932 • 1121 followers
Featured in: Best sellers Famous Artists

Explore the surreal world of Icelandic artist Erró, known for his thought-provoking collages blending cartoon characters with historical figures.

Nationality

Icelander

Categories

Painters, Printmakers

Artistic movements

Street Art

Themes

Pop Art, Portrait, Nude

Biography

Gudmundur Erró is an Icelandic artist born in 1932.

He studied painting at the Fine Arts School in Reykjavik and Oslo from 1949 to 1952, then mosaic at the Fine Arts School in Florence in 1955. In these schools, he initially specialized in the technique of paper cuts before focusing on mosaic. He moved to Paris in 1958 and met artists who were part of the Surrealist movement.

In the world of comics, Erró brought together cartoon characters and historical despots. He constantly gleans visuals in newspapers, advertising, or illustration, in order to make up his collages these include cultural samples from all the countries he visited. In this manner, comics and Chinese propaganda can and are on the same level.

He is able to create a visual impact, mixing both the temporal aspect and boundaries. Seeing a Walt Disney hero next to a dictator isn't surprising. He is committed through his works and tackles politics at full throttle. In order to denounce and criticize the events, he plays around with humor and derision. Totalitarian regimes, consumerism, and the Iraq war are his main weapons in the artistic struggle.

Before, he was used to working in cycles, his collages move from one universe to the other, creating large gaps, going from a series of eroticism to a second one, pertaining to space conquest. In his work  "Méca-Make-Up", Erró extracts faces of models from the press and then assembles them with mechanical materials that belong to cars or cameras.

His works are present in museums throughout the world and are used as references for narrative figuration and collages.

Explore all artworks (205)

Painting, Hommage à Picasso, Erró

Hommage à Picasso

Painting . 90 x 160 x 3 cm Painting . 35.4 x 63 x 1.2 inch

£26,569

Print, Dinardiquement vôtre, Erró

Dinardiquement vôtre

Print . 55 x 31.5 cm Print . 21.7 x 12.4 inch

£523

Print, Picasso, Erró

Picasso

Print . 46 x 64 cm Print . 18.1 x 25.2 inch

£487

Print, Life, Erró

Life

Print . 61 x 69 cm Print . 24 x 27.2 inch

£487

Print, Wonderwoman, Erró

Wonderwoman

Print . 75 x 53 cm Print . 29.5 x 20.9 inch

£523

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 92 x 56 cm Print . 36.2 x 22 inch

£443

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 56 x 92 cm Print . 22 x 36.2 inch

£523

Print, Birdscape, Erró

Birdscape

Print . 56 x 78 cm Print . 22 x 30.7 inch

£487

Print, Wonderwoman, Erró

Wonderwoman

Print . 78 x 56 cm Print . 30.7 x 22 inch

£576

Print, Fishscape, Erró

Fishscape

Print . 56 x 78 cm Print . 22 x 30.7 inch

£487

Print, Picasso Boat, Erró

Picasso Boat

Print . 76.5 x 119 cm Print . 30.1 x 46.9 inch

£620

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 83.5 x 57.5 cm Print . 32.9 x 22.6 inch

£487

Print, Elvis, Erró

Elvis

Print . 58.4 x 80 cm Print . 23 x 31.5 inch

£629

Print, Leger, Erró

Leger

Print . 58.4 x 80 cm Print . 23 x 31.5 inch

£669

Print, Amazon, Erró

Amazon

Print . 94 x 75 cm Print . 37 x 29.5 inch

£664

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 61 x 50 cm Print . 24 x 19.7 inch

£376

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 37.5 x 65 cm Print . 14.8 x 25.6 inch

£376

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 45 x 86 cm Print . 17.7 x 33.9 inch

£399

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 56 x 92 cm Print . 22 x 36.2 inch

£376

Print, Fresque Angoulême, Erró

Fresque Angoulême

Print . 58 x 59 cm Print . 22.8 x 23.2 inch

£376

Print, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Print . 83 x 55 cm Print . 32.7 x 21.7 inch

£376

Print, Marilyn Monroe, Erró

Marilyn Monroe

Print . 53.5 x 59 cm Print . 21.1 x 23.2 inch

£376

Print, Retour à Saint-Malo, Erró

Retour à Saint-Malo

Print . 45 x 31 cm Print . 17.7 x 12.2 inch

£523

Painting, Comics Women, Erró

Comics Women

Painting . 75 x 98 x 5 cm Painting . 29.5 x 38.6 x 2 inch

Price upon request

Painting, Sans titre, Erró

Sans titre

Painting . 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting . 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch

£8,856

Print, Wonder Woman, gravure originale, Erró

Wonder Woman, gravure originale

Print . 76 x 56 x 1 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch

£1,240

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Print, Skinny girls ain't sexy, Erró

Skinny girls ain't sexy

Print . 76 x 56 x 0.3 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch

£1,328

Print, Signed Exhibition Poster, Erró

Signed Exhibition Poster

Print . 84 x 59.4 x 1 cm Print . 33.1 x 23.4 x 0.4 inch

£310

Print, Skippy, Erró

Skippy

Print . 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Print . 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch

£1,320

Print, La femme fatale V, Erró

La femme fatale V

Print . 117 x 75 cm Print . 46.1 x 29.5 inch

£753

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Print, Tigre, Erró

Tigre

Print . 74.5 x 59 cm Print . 29.3 x 23.2 inch

£620

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