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Sybil Andrews, Patrick Caulfield, Lynn Chadwick, Naum Gabo, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Richard Hamilton, Stanley William Hayter, Barbara Hepworth, Stanley Jones, R.B. Kitaj, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Cyril Power

“Đ funḍmntl îdiyz r bêst on drw̃, n gd drw̃ z fr m ɖ abiḷti t repriznt ʈri-dmnśnl form in spês, on a flat srfis – phps ɖt z ẃ I ʈnc ɖt sculptrz śd b īvn mr cnsrnd wɖ biyñ ebl t drw ɖn pêntrz”
Henri Mur, 1978

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Wrestlers, 1913 (cast 1963), herculite. The Sherwin Collection, Leeds.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Wrestlers, 1913, linocut. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection.

Gertrude Hermes, Fish, 1932, wood engraving. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection.

Gertrude Hermes, Frogs II, 1947, bronze. The Sherwin Collection, Leeds.

Stanley William Hayter, Danse du Soleil, 1951, etching and engraving. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection.

Naum Gabo, Construction in Space with Rose Marble Carving (Variation No. 2), 1969, rose marble and Perspex. Image courtesy of Annely Juda Fine Art.

Naum Gabo, Opus 3, 1950, wood-engraving. Courtesy of Alan Cristea Gallery.

Barbara Hepworth, Three Forms, 1969, lithograph. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection.

Barbara Hepworth, Two Forms with White (Greek), 1963, Guarea wood. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection.

Stanley Jones at the Curwen Studio, 1968.

Eduardo Paolozzi, B.A.S.H., 1971, screenprint. Private Collection.

Eduardo Paolozzi, Mondrian Head, 1993, bronze. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection.

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Secrets of Internal Combustion Engine, 1967

“Sr Edwādo Pâlotsi z cnsidrd t b wn v ɖ fwrunrz v Britiš pop āt. An xibišn v hiz vîbṛnt n xentric prints hz ôpnd at ɖ Fitswiłm Myziym, Cembrij, ẇč wz an ŕli ṣpwtr v hiz wrc.

Ɖ printd c̣lāž wz an integṛl pāt v ɖ practis v Sr Edwādo Pâlotsi (1924-2005). Ẇn h wz growñ p in Līʈ, Edinbra, cutñ p n leyrñ imijz fṛm maġzīnz wz wn v hiz ŕli amyzmnts. H cntinyd t dveḷp ɖ mīdı̣m at Snt Mātin’z Scūl v Āt n ɖ Slêd in Lundn n ɖen lêtr muvd on t wrc wɖ printstydioz, crietñ scrīnprints n liʈgrafs. Ẇl wrcñ wɖ ɖz technīcs, h wz olso crietñ sculpčr. Hiz public sculpčrz cn b fând in Edinbra n Lundn, nôtbli hiz čunci bronzôd t Sr Îzac Nytn at ɖ Britiš Lîbrri (1995) n ɖ dnamic mzeic at Totnm Cwt Rôd undrgrând stêšn (1982), ẇč hz md našnl nyz hedlînz rīsntli, bcz it hz cm undr ʈret jrñ modnîzešn v ɖ stêšn.

Ɖ brît, olmst ilctrifayñ, culrclašz ɖt fīčr in ɖ Totnm Cwt Rôd mzeic r ivoc̣tv v ɖ prints dspled in ɖ xibišn. Leyrñ-p imijz fṛm maġzīnz, h juxṭpozd hiz intrest in tecnoḷji, sayns n histri wɖ rcŕñ popculčr ʈīmz v ṣlbṛti, fast fūd n advtîzñ. Ɖ printd c̣lāžz dspled in ɖ xibišn r têcn mnli fṛm ɖ tu siriz, Mūnstrips Empîr Nyz (1967) n Jenṛl Dnamic F.U.N. (1970), wɖ adišnl wrcs fṛm Clâd Atomic Lboṛtri (1971) n Bunc (1947-52).

Bunc, a siriz v 45 printd c̣lāžz, wz xibitd at ɖ Instityt v Cntmprri Āts in 1952. Īvn at a fwd-ʈncñ gaḷri, ɖ mīdı̣m v printd c̣lāž wz cnsidrd uncnvnšnl n uṇxptbl az āt bcz v ɖ fôtgrafic prôsesz involvd. Pâlotsi c̣laḅretd wɖ printstydioz fr ɖ wrcs, nôtbli Idišnz Alecto n Celpra Stydio. Ɖt sem yir, Pâlotsi côfândd ɖ Indipndnt Grūp, a grūp v ātists n ʈncrz hu bgan t dbet ɖ c̣ližn v hî n lo culčr in āt n ssayti. Pâlotsi’z stêṭs az a revlušnri ātist v mdrṇti wz ɖen smntd ẇn, in 1956, h tc pāt in ɖ seminl Ẇîtčapl Gaḷri xibišn tîtld Ɖs z Tmro, ẇč z creditd wɖ ušrñ in ɖ Britiš popāt muvmnt.

Ɖ tîtl Bunc z têcn fṛm a qôt fṛm Henri Fōd, hu wns sd: Histri z mr or ls bunc. Fōd wz a pṛgresv hu std fr maspṛduẋn n cnsymrizm, culčrz ɖt wr dominetñ America n ẇč fasinetd Pâlotsi. H intṛdyst ɖs Fōdist consept t āt: hiz c̣lāžsiriz wr printd in a standd išu v 100 n īvn pacijd in a nīt box. Ɖ box fr Bunc dspled in ɖ xibišn z md v trnzlūsnt nion-pnc plastc, rflctñ ɖ plêfl atityd v ɖ prints insd. Ɖ frst print fṛm ɖ box v faxiṃlīprints šoz ɖ priti pṛpwšnz v ɖ fês v Holīwŭd actṛs Lūsīl Bwl oṗzit a Mini Mâs pâdrñ hr nôz, a tin v Ẇît Star tyna, a frūtplêt n a glas v jūs.

Pâlotsi’z intrest in Americn culčr cntinyd in ɖ siriz Jenṛl Dnamic F.U.N, a pwtfolio v 50 fôtoliʈgrafs n scrīnprints crietd btwn 1965 n 1970. Ɖ prints r a plegrând fr Dizni caṛctrz n dînr-stîl fūd n drnc. Čildṛn, Americn landmācs n Holīwŭd starz ol congṛget, selbretñ ɖ entṛns v mīdia t ɖ modn êj.

Pâlotsi hd bcm obsest wɖ YS popculčr at an ŕli êj. Hiz Itałn pẹrnts, frst-jeṇrešn imigṛnts, ônd an îscrīm šop in Albtstrīt, Līʈ, ɖt sold cnfẋnri, ciġrets n siṇṃticits. Pâlotsi inʈyziastcli c̣lctd ciġretcādz v popylr spwtștarz n Holīwŭd actrz, n fṛm ɖ êj v for h went t ɖ lôcl siṇma, ẇr h abzwbd ɖ glits n drama v ɖ scrīnstarz. Holīwŭd starz pop p acrs Jenṛl Dnamic F.U.N; rocstar Rici Nelsn in a pnc šrt n a clasic-lcñ Iliẓbʈ Têlr wɖ prpl lips n grīn îz apir sîd bî sîd in a print tîtld An Empîr v Sili Sttistcs … A Fêc Wor fr Public Rlešnz.

It wz’nt jst ɖ subjctmatr v ɖ mūviz ɖt inspîrd ɖ yuñ Pâlotsi; ɖ šāp cutñ n clipñ tecnīcs fṛm filmsìnz wr olso an inflụns. H stātd t cut ât hiz fevrit imijz fṛm maġzīnz n, ẇl h wz nt ebl t pin ɖm p on hiz bedrūm wōlz – ɖ onli imij alaud wz a fremd Mdona wɖ a crūsifix – ɖ insîd v hiz cubḑorz wz ɖ sīcṛt ynivrs v hiz imajinešn. A fy pêjz fṛm wn v hiz nymṛs scečbcs r dspled in ɖ xibišn, šowñ hiz hymṛs leyrñ stîl juxṭpozñ ppl, objcts n txt.

Ẇl Americn popculčr wz a vižl obsešn, Pâlotsi réd n rsrčt wîdli on histri, sayns n filoṣfi, ẇč wz ẇ h prifŕd t cwl hmslf a sriylist, rɖr ɖn a popātist. Ɖ siriz Mūnstrips Empîr Nyz, crietd btwn 1965 n 1972, šoz hiz intrest in histri v āt n āṭfact. Mici Mâs z juxṭpozd wɖ Mîc̣lanjlo’z Dêvid in Ɖ Silcn Wrld v Mîc̣lanjlo (1967). A blac on gold prôfîl v Dêvid lcs īst t Yṛp, ẇl Mici Mâs fêsz west twdz America, n a cātūniš grūp v Ijipšn figrz prizîdz ovr ɖm bʈ. In a print tîtld Donld Duc Mīts Mondrian (1967), Donld z simplifîd intu pix̣letd blocs n Mondrian’z sqr culrz pop in brît pnc n yelo.

Az wel az āt, txt wz an impwtnt cmponnt v Pâlotsi’s wrc. Prints fṛm Jenṛl Dnamic F.U.N, Hâ t spend tîm in Holīwŭd n Temprri Vẹriešnz in Xpirı̣nst Tîp cnsist mostli v paṛgrafs v sml-print txt fṛm ɖ pêjz v a maġzīn. Pâlotsi olso dzînd a cuvr fr ɖ litrri jrnl Ambit, ẇr hiz frend JG Balād wz prôzeditr. Ɖ 1967 cuvr dspled in ɖ xibišn šoz ɖ c̣lāžd imij v a fuzi blac ġrila claspñ a wmn in a wedñdres, cut ât v a 1950z idišn v Vôg. H cntinyd t contribyt t ɖ jrnl wɖ imijz taclñ ṗlitcl subjcts sč az advtîzñ, ɖ Vietnam wor n Jaṗnīz tecnoḷji.

Pâlotsi’z printd c̣lāžz spīc ɖ lanĝj v tecnoḷji, caṛctrz r pix̣letd n patnz lc lîc flašñ srcitbwdz. Ɖ prints Hî Lîf n Memri Corynits (bʈ 1967) r pyr jı̣mtric dzîn. Uɖr wrcs fīčr fast cars, hî-spīd trênlînz, rôbots, astṛnwts n spêsšips, šowñ Pâlotsi’z fasinešn wɖ man n mšīn.

Ɖ Ʈiyri v Reḷtivti, dspled at ɖ entṛns t ɖ xibišn, z an xampl v wn v Pâlotsi’z ilctrifayñ jı̣mtric dzînz wɖ multipl grafic strips v pnc, yelo n orinj. Ɖs print wz prčist bî ɖ Fitswiłm Myziym in 1967 fr £34 fṛm ɖ printstydio Idišnz Alecto. Ɖ histri v ɖ myziym’z aqizišnz v Pâlotsi’z wrc z an ingejñ adišn t ɖ xibišn. Ɖ folowñ yir, ɖ myziym aqîrd ɖ siriz Mūnstrips Empîr Nyz n lêtr, in ɖ 90z, Pâlotsi dnetd hiz drwn dzînz fr ɖ Totnm Cwt Rôd undrgrândstêšn mzeic.

At a tîm ẇn Pâlotsi’z public āt hz cm undr ɖ našnl spotlît, ɖs xibišn priznts a bold vižl têst v hiz leġsi az a sriylist popātist, n šoz hiz impwtns t ɖ dveḷpmnt v Britiš āt. Ẇl hiz printd c̣lāžz wr an uncnvnšnl mīdı̣m at ɖ tîm v ɖer pṛduẋn, ɖe repriznt a prsnl pāt v hiz practis, ingrend sns čîldhd n dveḷpt frɖr bî hiz fasinešn wɖ tecnoḷji.”

Harı̣t Ʈwp, STYDIO INṬNAŠNL, 6 Māč 2015