Erró Icelandic, b. 1932
Overview
Born in Iceland in 1932, Erró has lived and worked in Paris since the 1960s. A central figure of the Figuration Narrative movement, he constructs densely layered compositions that collide comic strips, political imagery, art history and mass media into a single visual field. Irreverent, encyclopedic and relentlessly inventive, his work is held in major public collections including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, which dedicated a landmark retrospective to him in 2010. At 93, he remains one of the most singular voices in European figuration.
Biography
Born in Iceland in 1932, Erró has lived and worked in Paris since the 1960s. A central figure of the Figuration Narrative movement, he constructs densely layered compositions that collide comic strips, political imagery, art history and mass media into a single visual field. Irreverent, encyclopedic and relentlessly inventive, his work is held in major public collections including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, which dedicated a landmark retrospective to him in 2010. At 93, he remains one of the most singular voices in European figuration.