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Eduardo Paolozzi: transnational belongingsEduardo Paolozzi was born in Edinburgh. Along with other members of his Italian family he was interned at the outbreak of World War 2. In the early 1950s he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. He lived and worked in the US and in continental Europe producing artwork in a range of media reflecting his enduring interest in the material world. Towards the end of his life, he focused primarily on the production of huge public sculptures. The multilingual possibilities of art fascinated him. In many respects, Paolozzi was an archetypal transnational subject as well as a transmedial artist. In this talk, I will explore some of Paolozzi’s own ‘transnational belongings’, the things and attachments which characterized him as a Scots Italian. I will also explore the ‘attachment’ to him as a transnational subject in work I have been doing with secondary school pupils in an increasingly multilingual Edinburgh.
| Period | 11 Oct 2017 |
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| Held at | The British School at Rome, Italy |
| Degree of Recognition | International |