Sorel Etrog

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Sorel Etrog
Born (1933-08-29) August 29, 1933
Iaşi, Romania
Nationality Canadian
Field Sculpture, painting, writing, book illustration
Training Institute of Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv; Brooklyn Museum of Art
Awards Order of Canada, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Sorel Etrog, CM (born August 29, 1933) is a Romanian-born Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor.

Life

Born in Iaşi, Romania, in 1933, Sorel Etrog's formal art training began in 1945. In 1950, his family immigrated to Israel, where beginning in 1953 he studied at the Institute of Painting and Sculpture in Tel Aviv. His first solo exhibition in Tel Aviv in 1958 earned him a scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. In 1959, a meeting with Toronto art collector Samuel Zacks led to Etrog's first Canadian solo exhibition, at Gallery Moos in Toronto. Leaving New York for Toronto in 1963, Etrog became a Canadian citizen.[1]

Since the late 1950s, Etrog's work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally.

Etrog's work is represented in major capitals and cities of the world. Etrog has received several important commissions, including those for Expo 67, Montreal; SunLife Centre, Toronto; Windsor Sculpture Garden, Windsor, Ontario; Los Angeles County Museum, and Olympic Park in Seoul Korea. In 1966, works by Etrog along with those of Alex Colville and Yves Gaucher represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.[2] In 1968 Etrog was commissioned to design the Canadian Film Award that was originally named the "Etrog" and later renamed the "Genie".

Sorel Etrog is also known for his writings and published plays, poetry and non-fiction. Of his many collaborations, the most acclaimed are his book illustrations for Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett in the late 1960s. Etrog and Marshall McLuhan collaborated on the publication Spiral, drawn from Etrog’s film of the same title which was broadcast on CBC television in 1975.

Numerous reviews, articles, monographs and catalogue texts have been written about Etrog, including Pierre Restany’s comprehensive textbook published by Prestel 2001. A major exhibition of Etrog’s paintings and drawing of the 1960s will be exhibited in March 2008 at Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver.

Works

  • Sorel Etrog's Complexes of a young lady (1960/62)

  • Sorel Etrog's sculpture in Odette Sculpture Park Windsor Canada.

  • Sorel Etrog's sculpture Flight was commissioned by the Pavilion of Canada, Expo 67, and is now part of the Bank of Canada collection.

  • Sorel Etrog's sculpture Flight was commissioned by the Pavilion of Canada, Expo 67, and is now part of the Bank of Canada collection.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ Hargittay, Clara. "Sorel Etrog". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 16, 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Past Canadian Exhibitions". National Gallery of Canada at the Venice Biennale. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 12 October 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013. 

Bibliography

  • Belton, Robert (1996). "Etrog, Sorel". In Jane Turner. The Dictionary of Art 10. London: Macmillan. p. 582. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. 
  • Etrog, Sorel; Pierre Restany (2001). Sorel Etrog. London: Prestel. ISBN 3-7913-2499-3. 

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