Etching on paper
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Parkplatz
Purchased 1982
architecture
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paper print etching
Parkplatz
image: 344 × 489 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-parkplatz-p07684" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07684</span></a> <b>Parkplatz</b> 1980</p>
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<br/>Etching 13 1/2 × 19 1/4 (344 × 489) on paper 15 1/8 × 22 3/4 (382 × 588) watermarked ‘Arches FRANCE’, printed by Cliff White at White Ink Studio, not editioned</p>
<p>Inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1980’ b.r. and ‘A/P’</p>
<p>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>A photoetching was made from an enlargement of a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of a circuit with the grainy photographic images of cars <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collaged</span></a> over it. The idea of the change in scale from a detail of a circuit to a piece of architecture is characteristic of Paolozzi's visual language. A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> entitled ‘Parkplatz’ 1979 is illustrated in the catalogue for the exhibition ‘Eduardo Paolozzi Work in Progress’, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1979 (p.92): it is a linear image of the same configuration. Paolozzi made a number of drawings and trial <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> on this theme.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
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architecture bus car car park electrical appliances electrical component emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities lorry objects photographic society street townscapes / man-made features transport: land