Article: Erro's history: New York audiences had three opportunities to encounter the vivid and sometimes bitingly political work of Erro, the Icelandic artist who maintained a love-hate relationship with U.S. culture.("Worldscapes: The Art of Erro" at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York)

"And that's how history is written!" exclaims the sci-fi comic-book muscleman, gaping out at an unseen menace in a small collage of 1980 included in "Worldscapes: The Art of Erro." This first American retrospective surveys the artist's extensive output of paintings, works on paper, films and performances over more than 50 years. If Erro was likely thinking about history-with-a-capital-H when he composed this modest piece (and, in fact, the exhibition is full of references to the turbulent history of the second half of the 20th century), in the specific framework of this retrospective, we might suspect that the intrepid superhero was a stand-in for the artist, looking on ...

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