Erró - We have to go to dinner

New Acquisition: A Work by Erró

The Tarelkin Collection is happy to add a new work to its collection: A screenprint by the Icelandic artist Erró from 1994, titled "We have to go to dinner". The print, acquired on June 20, 2026, is hand-signed, dated 1994, and is numbered as copy number 4 of 15 from a small, Roman-numeraled limited edition.

Born in Ólafsvík in 1932, Erró (Guðmundur Guðmundsson) initially studied traditional painting and fresco art at the art academies in Reykjavík, Oslo, and Florence before settling in Paris in 1958. There, he became one of the central figures of European Pop Art and the Figuration Narrative movement. Erró is known for collecting visual material from comic books, cartoons, and advertisements, transforming it into altered contexts through new arrangements.

The motif brings the portrait of Wonder Woman into an immediate, cinematic close-up. Erró completely isolates the familiar comic heroine from her heroic world, confronting her instead with an everyday line of text: "We have to go to dinner." Through this deliberate juxtaposition, the original narrative loses its meaning. The focus shifts entirely to the bold, poster-like quality of the source material—Erró celebrates the raw, direct visual language of pop culture, consistently translating its clean shapes and outlines into the print medium.

This acquisition expands the collection's holding of 20th-century works on paper while further developing the focus on Icelandic artists.