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A master storyteller, Erró tends to work in series. To create his paintings, he makes collages, cutting and pasting images from his extensive archive of source materials. Once completed, these collages are projected onto canvases and painted. He prefers to work on a large scale: the cumulative effect of viewing multiple components often engenders powerful, sometimes even overwhelming, visual experiences.

Women reign supreme in Femmes Fatales, a series from dating from 1987 to 1995. Erró invents an Amazonian universe populated by nuns, female warriors, television superstars, and, most prominently, comic-book superheroines. Re-manipulating mass-culture images that were designed to manipulate us, Erró simultaneously employs and undermines clichés. Here female sexual prowess is uncontested, and the paintings’ smooth, shiny surfaces unify jam-packed, complex compositions. In them, commanding figures conjure up both powerful women warriors from ancient Icelandic sagas and cyber-heroines from some apocalyptic future.