The SFU Gallery Presents The Link Paintings by Sorel Etrog
From now until May 8th, the SFU Gallery features Sorel Etrog’s thought-provoking exhibit, The Link Paintings.
Known mainly for his sculptural practice, Etrog’s paintings are made in the face of the dominance of Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s and ‘70s, and countered high modernism by using modernism’s ‘tools’ against its instrumentalism.
Etrog has long-standing associations with the playwrights Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, and the post-modern questioning of the human condition in his art is of a piece with their works. His contorted bodies mirror human confinement and limitations; and his Link Paintings are examples of a painted theatre of the absurd – as well as metaphors for the fragility of bodies – and highlight the ways in which different parts of the self interact with or are controlled by other parts.
Sorel Etrog currently lives and works in Toronto. The SFU Gallery extends thanks to Sorel Etrog for his support; seven of the eight works in the exhibition are on loan from him. This exhibition is also presented in collaboration with the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery.
For more information on the gallery’s events, exhibits, discussions and programs, call 778-782-4266, email gallery@sfu.ca or visit the Simon Fraser University Gallery Website.
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