Eduardo Paolozzi: General Dynamic F.U.N.

Saturday 11 January – Sunday 30 March 2025 | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was one of the great pioneers of POP Art. This exhibition brings together a series of fifty screenprints and photolithographs he created between 1965 and 1970 to Worcester.

For General Dynamic F.U.N., Paolozzi turned to his unique and eclectic archive – Disney, pulp paperbacks, American magazines, technical manuals, consumer advertising and philosophical texts – simultaneously exploiting technology to make art while satirising the idols and the iconography of technology-driven culture. He explored the relationship between technology, kitsch and popular taste.

The prints, which bear idiosyncratic titles such as ‘Totems and Taboos of the Nine-to-Five Day’; ‘Twenty Traumatic Twinges’ and ‘Cary Grant as a Male War Bride’, do not occupy a rigid sequence but can be assembled and viewed in any order.

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Eduardo Paolozzi, An Empire of Silly Statistics… A Fake War for Public Relations, from General Dynamic F.U.N., 1970 © The Paolozzi Foundation/DACS London, 2025.

A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.