Erró (1932) born Guômundur Guômundsson is an Icelandic artist.
He studied printmaking, frescoes, and painting at the Academy in Oslo.
Erro is an eminent artist of Narrative Figuration, a movement he founded with other artists such as Bernard Rancillac, Télémaque and Arroyo.
Fascinated by the world of images from the most diverse cultures, Erro collects everything he can glean here and there through comics, comics, the press, advertising, advertising, illustration drawings and other marginal publications.
Erro began his preparatory work by creating collages from items cut out of magazines.
He uses this reservoir of images to create a whole world of small sketches that are in turn funny, ironic or militant, which he transposes onto the canvas and where everything is telescoped in an explosive formal and chromatic jubilation.
Erro works in series: he produces Chinese, political (Political Pantings series), erotic cycles.
He deals with the history of art, consumer society, music as well as the first steps on the Moon... He sees painting as “a means to try to discover the meaning of a confused world”.
His canvases are filled all-over with images, to the point of saturation and built according to improbable perspectives and scales.
For Erro, everything is an object of curiosity, a subject for social or political criticism.
A major retrospective looks back on his 50 years of work and his collages at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 2010.

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“Collage is the most exciting part of my work, the freest; it's almost automatic writing. This is where I find formal solutions to saturate the space, my “all-over” side, as they say for American abstract artists. Collage is both the original and the model.”
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