Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005)

Eduardo Paolozzi, Evadne in Green Dimension, 1952, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

From Tate Gallery: "…[T]he collages Paolozzi made between 1941 and 1952, [are] collectively entitled ‘Bunk’. This title was derived from a detail of one of the collages in the group, ‘Evadne in Green Dimension’ 1952, which contains the printed word ‘BUNK!’. In the catalogue of his Tate Gallery retrospective in 1971, the artist states beside a reproduction of this collage that this word gave the title to the lecture he gave at the Independent Group. This lecture, at the premises of the I.C.A. in London in 1952, was the first event to be presented in the programme of the Independent Group. Its main feature was the projection by Paolozzi through an epidiascope of a large number of images mainly removed from magazines and including material from science fiction, aviation, technology, comics, advertising for food, domestic appliances, cars, films, etc., pin-up pictures, news photographs and medical diagrams. Although many of the images projected were whole pages from magazines, untampered with except by the act of isolation, the artist told the compiler that the collages from ‘Bunk’ were among the material that was projected."

Eduardo Paolozzi, Real Gold, 1950, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, Evadne in Green Dimension, 1952, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, I was a Rich Man's Plaything, 1947, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, Was This Metal Monster Master - or Slave?, 1952, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, Windtunnel Test, 1950, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, It's a Psychological Fact Pleasure Helps Your Disposition, 1948, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, Yours Till The Boys Come Home, 1951, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

Eduardo Paolozzi, The Ultimate Planet, 1952, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)