Gexhi

Artist Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1924 - 2005)

Date1967

Mediumalloy

ClassificationsSculptures

DimensionsOverall (Height x Width x Depth): 1815 × 3770 × 1540mm

AcquisitionPresented in 1969 by the artist.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 01

Object numberABDAG004682

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About MeEduardo Paolozzi was the son of Italian immigrants living in Edinburgh and was one of the founder members of the Pop Art movement. The consumer age with its glorification of the machine and employment of mass marketing techniques was a rich source of material for the artist's experiments in sculpture and printmaking.

In the 1950s Paolozzi devised a technique by which he could incorporate ready-made and found objects into his sculpture without destroying their permanence. Gexhi, dating from 1967, is developed from this idea of ready-mades and has the appearance of industrial pipeline. The sleek, silver composition creates allusions to car silencers, cluttered pipelines, or even fictional space machines. In addition, the use of manufactured sections of pipe, cast in an industrial alloy, add to the pure physical size of Gexhi and to this strong flavour of technology.

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Paolozzi, Scots-born son of Italian immigrants (and as such temporarily interned at the start of World War II), was a pioneer of Pop Art.

Exhibitions

Gallery 01 - Collecting Art