Paolozzi+Kitaj: British pop prints from the Art Gallery of NSW Collection

This exhibition features two major British print portfolios from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Meet the collection: 10:30am Saturday 17 July; Floor talk: 11am Saturday 17 July

Eduardo Paolozzi’s 'Bunk' 1972 is a collection of 45 screenprints derived from collage scrapbooks made by the artist in the 1950s. The source material came from American magazines given to the him by US soldiers on leave in Paris in the late 1940s. The works highlight the rampant consumerism of American society in stark contrast to the post-war austerity of England still subjected to rationing and the effects of a slow economic recovery. The second portfolio 'In our time: Covers for a small library after the life for the most part' 1969 by R.B.Kitaj is a collection of 50 screenprints of second-hand book covers. Published with deliberate lack of explanation as to the choice of books, the accumulative effect of ‘the library’ is both a time-capsule and an intriguing insight into the mind of the artist.