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Erró – The Power of Images
About the exhibition
With Erró - The Power of Images, ARoS presents the largest exhibition of Erró (b. 1932, Ólafsvík, Iceland) in Denmark to date, showcasing his impressive body of work on the Danish art scene. This is the first time an international audience can experience such a wide range of Erró's high-voltage pop culture commentary.
Erró's artistic process has continuously evolved and his production ranges from art and film to comics, science, history, politics and advertising. Erró has reshaped and dissolved his visual material to create art that is playful and rejects all forms of authority. At the same time, he knows how to have a sharp political and artistic content.
As the progenitor of painted collage (the artistic practice of painting based on montages of finished collages), Erró has developed a satirical, colourful and exuberant saga of consumer society and global politics. Freely mixing images from different print sources, his detailed and often disturbing works break cultural stereotypes and mix past with present and fiction with reality.
The exhibition Erró - The Power of Images has been created in a Nordic cross-institutional collaboration with Reykjavík Art Museum. The exhibition is produced by Reykjavík Art Museum and planned in collaboration with ARoS.
Erró - The Power of Images won The Iceland Art Prize 2023 in the category of best retrospective exhibition in 2022, when it was exhibited at Reykjavík Art Museum.
Reviews
The exhibition at ARoS contains an exceptional number of works, and it must be said that the often quite colourful elements create an atmosphere that, against all principles, gives a heavy perspective on the changing eras in which the works were created.
Jyllands-Posten
What makes the exhibition with Erró so interesting is that, as an artist, he seems to be constantly at a distance, looking in from the outside at both the world of art and the world in general.
Politiken
Special thanks to
Augustinus Fonden
15. Juni Fonden
Per og Lise Aarsleffs fond
FDIS – Fondet for Dansk-Islandsk Samarbejde