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ERRO Gudmundur
Erró was one of the first Icelandic artists to organize and take part in performances in the early sixties, and during that time also worked in film, which was the precursor to video art; he has also worked considerably in drawings, collage, printmaking and sculpture throughout his career.
Erró settled in Paris in 1958. He has held a great number of private exhibitions all over the world, and his works have been presented in an even larger number of group exhibitions. Only a few are mentioned here. His art is represented in museums and public institutions in a number of countries worldwide. Erró lives and works in Paris, Thailand and in Spain.
Erró
1932 Gudmundur Gudmundsson is born in Ólafsvík, Iceland.
1949 Gudmundur starts his studies at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Reykjavik.
1951 Studies painting, fresco and engraving at the Art Academy of Oslo, Norway.
1953 Goes on a study tour to Spain, Germany and France.
1954 Travels to Italy and Sicily. Starts using the artist's name Ferró.
1955-1957 Ferró studies at the Fine Arts Academy of Florence. Then he studies Byzantine mosaics at Ravenna, Italy. He comes to Iceland and produces several mosaics in Reykjavik.
His first private exhibition is held in Galleria Santa-Trinita in Florence in the year 1955.
1957 Stays for eight months in Israel.
1958 Settles in Paris.
1962 Starts his first film, Grimaces with producer Claude Givaudan.
1962-1966 Ferró goes to the Soviet Union for the first time. He also had several stays in New York during this period.
1963-1965 Participates in happenings with the artist J.J. Lebel. Makes his own happening, "Gold Water", which is performed in Paris.
1967 Ferró was forced to change his name after being sued by a person with the same name. He drops the F and Ferró becomes Erró.
Erró travels to Cuba.
1966-1971 Several stays in New York two trips to the Soviet Union. Erró receives a D.A.A.D. grant in Berlin, Germany. He goes on a nine months trip around the world.
1972-1985 Erró stays several times in Thailand and in the Far-East.
1977 Michel Lancelot and Georges Paumier make a 30min television film on Erró.
1978 Retrospective organized by the Arts Festival of Reykjavik. An Icelandic television film is made on Erró.
1989 Erró makes an important donation of paintings and of all his archives to the City of Reykjavik. This donation marks the establishment of the Erró Collections within the Reykjavik Art Museum.
1990 Trip to Vietnam.
1994 Has a private exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum at Kjarvalsstadir. There he adds a number of paintings as well as all his letters and documents to the Erró Collection at the Reykjavik Art Museum.
1997 Creates the Gudmunda S. Kristindóttir Memorial Award Fund. Gudmunda was his aunt.
1996-1998 Works on a huge decoration that is made in porcelain for an underground Metro station in Lisbon, Portugal.
1998 Has a large exhibition in the new building of the Reykjavik Art Museum (Hafnarhus) as well as in Villa Tamaris, la Seyne-sur Mer in the south of France.
1999 A major retrospective exhibition of his works in Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
2000 Erró creates a major decoration that is made in porcelain for a shopping centre in Reykjavik. Elected to receive the Honorary Artists Stipend by the Icelandic Parliament.
2001 A retrospective of the Erró Collection at the Reykjavik Art Museum opens in the Museum's new building, Hafnarhus, June the 23rd.
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