ERRÓ
Biography
Erró is an Icelandic painter born in 1932.
He studied the plastic arts, mainly painting, at the Reykjavík and Oslo Fine Arts Schools from 1949 to 1952, then mosaics at the Florence Fine Arts School in 1955. At these various schools, he first specialised in the cut-paper technique before devoting himself to mosaics. He moved to Paris in 1958 and met artists from the Surrealist movement.
In a comic strip world, Erró brought together cartoon figures and historical despots. He constantly gleaned visuals from newspapers, advertising and illustration to create his collages. Cultural samples from all the countries he visits. In this way, comics and Chinese propaganda can and will find themselves on the same plane.
He creates visual shocks, mixing temporality and borders. Seeing a Walt Disney hero alongside a dictator never fails to surprise. His drawings are resolutely committed and tackle political themes head-on. To denounce and criticise the events the artist was tackling, he also used humour and derision. Totalitarian regimes, consumer society and the war in Iraq were to be the main spearheads of his artistic struggle.
