CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/9/2017

Eduardo Paolozzi

In a 1971 interview with J.G. Ballard, Eduardo Paolozzi describes his work as an extension of radical Surrealism, rather than Pop. Ballard comments, "The environment is filled with more fiction and fantasy than any of us can singly isolate. It’s no longer necessary for us individually to dream. This completely cuts 
the ground from under all the tenets of classical Surrealism. Why I admire Eduardo 
is because he’s making within the span of his own lifetime as an adult, sculpture and graphic art which is a complete turnabout. I mean that he’s accommodated himself to this change. From his early sculpture, where he was using the technique appropriate at the time of overlaying an external reality, the world of nuts and bolts technology, with his own fantasies, he’s gone round now to the opposite position. He’s now analyzing external fictions." Paolozzi's "Computer-Epoch" (1967) from the Universal Electronic Vacuum print series, is reproduced from Whitechapel's excellent new retrospective catalog.