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Mechanical Pop Art | Alexandra Novik-Khamis

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Rational order in the technological world can be fascinating.My interpretation of one of the famous Eduardo Paolozzi's masterpieces.Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (Edinburgh, 7 March 1924 – London, 22 April 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist.He was the eldest son of Italian immigrants.He was a major figure in the international art sphere. Paolozzi investigated how we fitted into the modern world. He revealed our fragmented civilization through imagination and fantasy.He was made Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in 1986, which he held until his death.He was a restless soul, old Eddie Paolozzi. Over the course of his career he worked in collage, prints, sculpture, textiles, bronze, painting; he made tiny things, big things; public things, private things.There weren’t really any limits in his work. Comics, advertisements, ancient ruins, industrial design; he found inspiration everywhere, and he took it all and turned it into the figurative gorgeousness that’s so recognizably him.Sure, Paolozzi was Scottish, but it’s in London that he made his mark – literally. This city is full of Paolozzis. There are his Tottenham Court Road tube mosaics, now restored and more vibrant than ever. Then there are his major public sculptures: the Newton outside the British Library, the giant dissected head outside the old Design Museum, the cubist weirdness of the Pimlico cooling tower, and that’s just a start.Paolozzi really is London’s artist, and it’s about time we celebrated him properly.

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