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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, the sculptor,
is justly credited with the explosive development in screen printing
as a creative medium for artists. He is a collage maker of extraordinary
facility inventing ready made metaphors or a universe of
pictures (as he describes them).
The mechanical perfection of the screen
printing medium has provided an ideal vehicle for the juxtaposition
of incongruities and in particular, for the new Turing
Collection which expresses the life and work of mathematician
and philosopher, Alan Turing.
Eduardo Paolozzi's famous sculptures can be seen at prominent locations
throughout
the world.
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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924, Edinburgh, Scotland)
studied at Edinburgh School of Art and the Slade. He taught Textiles Design
at the Central School of Art, sculpture at St Martin's, ceramics at The
Royal College and was visiting Professor at Hamburg, Cologne and The University
of California. In 1977 he became Professor of sculpture at Akademie der
Bildenden Kunste, Munich and Sculptor-In-Ordinary for Scotland since 1991.
He was knighted in 1988.
His first exhibition was in 1944 in London, since
when he has had numerous one-man exhibitions and participated in major
national and international group exhibitions, such as the Tate Retrospective.
The Paolozzi Museum opened in Edinburgh in spring 1999.
Copies of his portfolios are held in many international
collections. Many curators regard them as the benchmark by which other
prints may be judged.
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