About

Gudmundur Gudmundsson, known as Erró, was born in Ólafsvík, Iceland, in 1932. After training at the Fine Arts School in Reykjavik and the Academy of Art in Oslo (where he studied fresco and mosaic), the young Gudmundur, nomadic and eager for adventure, began traveling the world.
In 1958, encouraged by the artist Jean-Jacques Lebel, whom he had met earlier in Florence, he settled in Paris. This meeting was decisive, and introduced him to many artists, including André Breton, who introduced him to Surrealism. With them, he was able to continue the collage work he had begun in Israel. This became …