"Sometimes, I have a strong desire to compose large spaces, stuffed with information, where there could even be an entire city… Painting is a kind of journey through forms, spaces, and styles, not a defense of a specific territory."
The Icelandic artist Erró is passionate about a world of images drawn from the most diverse cultures. He collects everything he can glean here and there through comics, alternative media, advertising, illustrative drawings, and other marginal publications. He uses this reservoir of images to create a whole world of little sketches (in turn funny, ironic, or militant) which he transposes onto canvas, where everything collides in explosive jubilation. His canvases are covered with images, to the point of saturation, and composed according to implausible perspectives and scales. For Erró, everything is an object of curiosity and material for social or political criticism.