A NEW touring exhibition of screen prints by Eduardo Paolozzi will open at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock next month as part of a national tour.

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005) was one of the pioneers of the pop art movement in the UK.

Born in Scotland, Paolozzi was a compulsive collector and is revered for his mechanistic sculptures and his kaleidoscopic print projects.

The artist, who described himself as ‘a wizard in Toytown’, transformed the mundane, the derelict and the mass-produced into new images.

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Paolozzi’s talent is apparent in General Dynamic F.U.N, a series of 50 screen prints and photolithographs created between 1965 and 1970.

Here the artist employs the technologies of mass reproduction – the household names and familiar faces of consumer advertising, high fashion and Hollywood.

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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The exhibition runs from January 11 to February 9 is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 2pm to 5pm and is free.

The Oxfordshire Museum is at Fletcher’s House in Park Street, together with the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.