Merry Xmas, 2002
industrial paint on canvas
45 5/8 x 35 inches; 116 x 89 centimeters
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Erró: Variations on Animation. The exhibition opens with a reception from 6 to 9 PM, Saturday, November 1 and continues through Saturday, December 20, 2003.
What do Boris Yeltsin, Minnie Mouse and Picasso’s weeping women have in common? All are represented in vivid technicolor hues, rendered in oil on large cartoon-panel-style canvasses and harnessed to the irrepressible cultural cross referencing of the internationally celebrated artist Erró.
Born in Olafsvik, Iceland, Erró’s initial encounter with art came via a childhood perusal of a MOMA NY catalogue. Since then he has studied painting, drawing, printmaking, fresco painting, mosaic design, film and video in virtually all corners of the earth. The artist has been collected and featured in exhibition internationally. His work has been included in the Tokyo Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Venice Biennale, the Foundation Maeght (Saint-Paul-de-Vence), Kjarvalssataoir (the City Museum of Reyjkavik), Musée des Beaux-Arts (Montpellier), the Bezalel National Museum (Jerusalem) and the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum (Germany). Erró has been decorated with Scandinavia’s Order of Prince Eugene, France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres and Iceland’s Order of the Falcon with a further distinction awarded by the Icelandic Parliament, the “Heidurslaun Listamanna.”
Erró’s dazzling fluency with contemporary politics, his meticulous compositions and surreally potent narratives has seduced critics and collectors worldwide. This exhibition marks Erró’s first formal presentation in Southern California.