[BCMA] SOREL ETROG: The Link Paintings - March 20 to May 8, 2010

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Subject: 	SOREL ETROG: The Link Paintings - March 20 to may 8, 2010
Date: 	Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:12:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	SFU Gallery <gallery at sfu.ca>



*/SOREL ETROG: The Link Paintings/*

*SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus*
March 20 to may 8, 2010


Please join us for the Opening Reception: Saturday March 20, 2–5 pm – 
parking is free at any SFU visitor lot - just print this page out and 
place on you dashboard!

Sorel Etrog’s paintings, made in the face of the hegemony of Abstract 
Expressionism in the 1960s and ‘70s, countered high modernism by using 
modernism’s ‘tools’ against its instrumentalism. Etrog had long-standing 
associations with both Beckett and Ionesco; his post-war and post-modern 
questioning of the human condition, as depicted in the contorted bodies 
with their ‘links’, explores many issues related to personal and social 
freedom. The ‘link paintings’ highlight the ways that different ‘parts’ 
of the self interact with or are controlled by other parts. The 
tool-like devices that join, say, mouth, or knee, or hip to eye, make 
the case for an up-to-date ecology of the body that mirrors current 
biological knowledge, as well as the reality of our inner workings.  

Sorel Etrog lives and works in Toronto.

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Buschlen Mowatt Gallery.

*Lunchtime talks on the exhibition:* Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23 and 
24, 12:05. Thursday and Friday, March 25 and 26, 12:35.

*Gallery hours:* Tuesday – Friday:10am – 5pm and Saturday: 12pm – 5pm. 
Closed holiday long weekends


Room 3004, Academic Quadrangle | SFU Burnaby Campus. Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 
| 778-782-4266 | sfu.ca/gallery


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