Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art.

Early years

Eduardo Paolozzi was born on 7 March 1924, in

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in north

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, Scotland, and was the eldest son of Italian immigrants. His family was from

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, in the

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region. Paolozzi’s parents, Rodolfo and Carmela, ran an ice cream shop. Paolozzi used to spend all his summers at his grandparents place in

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and grew up bilingual. In June 1940, when Italy declared war on the United Kingdom, Paolozzi was

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(along with most other Italian men in Britain). During his three-month internment at

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his father, grandfather and uncle, who had also been detained, were among the 446 Italians who drowned when the ship carrying them to Canada, the ''

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'', was sunk by a

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. Paolozzi studied at the

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in 1943, briefly at

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in 1944, and then at the

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from 1944 to 1947, after which he worked in

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. While in Paris from 1947 to 1949, Paolozzi became acquainted with

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and

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. This period became an important influence for his later work. For example, the influence of Giacometti and many of the original Surrealists he met in Paris can be felt in the group of lost-wax sculptures made by Paolozzi in the mid-1950s. Their surfaces, studded with found objects and machine parts, were to gain him recognition.

Career

After Paris, he moved back to London eventually establishing his studio in

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. The studio was a workshop filled with hundreds of found objects, models, sculptures, materials, tools, toys and stacks of books."Paolozzi Studio"
, National Galleries of Scotland. Paolozzi was interested in everything and would use a variety of objects and materials in his work, particularly his

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.″Mythologies″, Exhibit Catalog, ''The Scottish Gallery'', 2–26 May 1990. In 1955 he moved with his family to the village of

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. Together with

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he established

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, a design company producing wallpapers, textiles and ceramics that were initially manufactured at Landermere Wharf, and when his evening course in printed textile design at the Central School of Art and Design attracted the

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graphics student

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, he was instrumental in pointing her towards her future career as a textile designer. Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1950s by producing a range of striking

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s and

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sculpture. He was a founder of the Independent Group in 1952, which is regarded as the precursor to the mid-1950s British and late 1950s American Pop Art movements. His seminal 1947 collage '' I was a Rich Man's Plaything'' is considered the earliest standard bearer representing Pop Art. He always described his work as surrealist art and, while working in a wide range of media though his career, became more closely associated with sculpture. Paolozzi is recognized for producing largely lifelike statuary works, but with rectilinear (often cubic) elements added or removed, or the human form deconstructed in a

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manner.

He taught sculpture and ceramics at several institutions, including the

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(1960–62),

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(in 1968) and at the

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. Paolozzi had a long association with Germany, having worked in

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from 1974 as part of the Berlin Artist Programme of the German Academic Exchange Programme. He was a professor at the

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from 1977 to 1981, and later taught sculpture at the

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. Paolozzi was fond of Munich and many of his works and concept plans were developed in a studio he kept there, including the mosaics of the Tottenham Court Road Station in London. He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale ''Suomi'' tableware by

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that Paolozzi decorated for the German Rosenthal

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maker's ''Studio Linie''. Paolozzi's graphic work of the 1960s was highly innovative. In a series of works he explored and extended the possibilities and limits of the silkscreen medium. The resulting prints are characterised by Pop culture references and technological imagery. These series are: ''As Is When'' (12 prints on the theme of Paolozzi's interest in the philosopher

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; published as a limited edition of 65 by Editions Alecto, 1965); ''Moonstrips Empire News'' (100 prints, eight signed, in an acrylic box; published as a limited edition of 500 by Editions Alecto, 1967); ''Universal Electronic Vacuu'' (10 prints, poster and text; published by Paolozzi as a limited edition of 75, 1967); ''General Dynamic Fun''. (part 2 of ''Moonstrips Empire News''; 50 sheets plus title sheet; boxed in five versions; published as a limited edition of 350 by Editions Alecto, 1970). In the 1960s and 1970s, Paolozzi artistically processed man-machine images from popular science books by German doctor and author

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(1888–1968), such as in his screenprint "Wittgenstein in New York" (1965), the print series ''Secrets of Life – The Human Machine and How it Works'' (1970), or the cover design for

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's novel ''

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'' (Penguin, 1972). As recently as 2009, the reference to Kahn was discovered by Uta and Thilo von Debschitz during their research of work and life of Fritz Kahn.

Later career

Tottenham Court Road stn Central line mosaic

Paolozzi was appointed

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in 1968 and in 1979 he was elected to the

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. During the late 1960s, he started contributing to literary magazine '' Ambit'', which began a lifelong collaboration. In 1980, the

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(ICAEW) commissioned a set of three tapestries from Paolozzi to represent 'present day and future societies in relation to the role played by ICAEW', as part of the institute's centenary celebrations. The three highly distinctive pieces - which Paolozzi wanted to ''"depict our world of today in a manner using the same bold pictorial style as the Bayeux tapestries in France"'' - currently hang in

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. He was promoted to the office of Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in 1986, which he held until his death. He also received an

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from

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in 1987. Paolozzi was

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in 1989 as Knight Bachelor (). In 1994, Paolozzi gave the

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a large body of his works, and much of the content of his studio. In 1999 the

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opened the

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to display this collection. The gallery displays a recreation of Paolozzi's studio, with its contents evoking the original London and Munich locations and also houses Scottish-Italian a restaurant, Paolozzi's Kitchen, which was created by Heritage Portfolio in homage to the local artist. In 2001, Paolozzi suffered a near-fatal

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, causing an incorrect magazine report that he had died. The illness made him a wheelchair user, and he died in a hospital in London in April 2005. In 2013,

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in Chichester held a major retrospective ''Eduardo Paolozzi: Collaging Culture'' (6 July −13 October 2013), featuring more than 100 of the artist's works, including sculpture, drawings, textile, film, ceramics and paper collage. Pallant House Gallery has an extensive collection of Paolozzi's work given and loaned by the architect

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, who commissioned Paolozzi's sculpture '' Newton After Blake'' for the

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Notable Public Works

* Mosaic murals for the platforms, passages and escalator entrances of

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, London, and Paolozzi's most extensive work. Escalator entrance murals were removed as part of redevelopment, and were donated to the

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though most mosaics remain in situ and were restored in 2017. * Cover artwork for

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's album ''

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'' * Ceiling panels and window tapestry at Cleish Castle * ''

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'' sculpture,

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concourse, London, until 2019, present location unknown * Cast aluminium doors for the

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's Hunterian Gallery, commissioned by William Whitfield * Bronze sculpture '' Newton after Blake'', 1995, in the forecourt of the

* ''The Manuscript of Monte Cassino'', an open palm, a section of limb and a human foot, located at

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, looking towards Paolozzi's birthplace Leith * ''Head of Invention'' sculpture in front of the

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in Kensington * Sculpture '' A Maximis Ad Minima'' in

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at the west end of the Princess of Wales Conservatory * Mosaics in

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Town Centre * ''Athena'' sculpture in the foyer of the John McIntosh Arts Centre at

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* ''Faraday'' sculpture at the University of Birmingham * '' The Artist as Hephaestus'', on

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from 1987, removed 2012 present location unknown File:Scotland's Early People (9648956583).jpg, ''Scotland's Early People'',

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. The sculptures incorporate display cases for ancient artefacts File:Paolozzi Monte Cassino 3.jpg, ''The Manuscript of Monte Cassino'' File:2006-06-05 - London Flickr Scavenger Hunt 2 4888936204.jpg, '' The Artist as Hephaestus'' File:Paolozzi For Leonardo 1986-3.jpg, ''For Leonardo'', 1986 File:Faraday Monument, Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower 2011.jpg, ''Faraday'', at the University of Birmingham File:Vulcan by Eduardo Paolozzi (1999) in the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art.jpg, ''Vulcan'', 1998–9,

Other work

* Eduardo Paolozzi played a deaf-mute in

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's 1956

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film ''

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'', alongside the painter Michael Andrews. * A photograph of Paolozzi's large, well-worn right hand was selected by

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as the cover image for his book ''Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective'' (August 2000).

Writings

* ''Metafisikal Translations'' by Eduardo Paolozzi, Lelpra, London, 1962 * ''Eduardo Paolozzi'' by Eduardo Paolozzi, Tate, London, 1971 * '' Junk and the New Arts and Crafts Movement'' by Eduardo Paolozzi, Talbot Rice Centre, Edinburgh, August 1979 * ''Recurring themes'' by Eduardo Paolozzi, Rizzoli (1984),

Sources

External links

*
Tate Collection of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi: 381 Works

Works in National Galleries of Scotland

''Daily Telegraph'' obituary, 23 April 2005
"Pop artist Paolozzi dies aged 81"
BBC News, 22 April 2005

The Tottenham Court Road Underground Station mosaics

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Gallery website

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Projects 1972 – 2000

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Jonathan Clark Fine Art

Independent Gallery

Paolozzi's internment recorded in Saughton Prison records, National Archives of Scotland
* John-Paul Stonard
"The ‘Bunk’ collages of Eduardo Paolozzi"
''

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'', April 2008
Designer Nicole Farhi on her "friend and mentor" Eduardo Paolozzi
''Daily Telegraph'', 6 July 2013
"The Subject is S.I.N."
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