Title

Ritual Head

Artist

Etrog, Sorel

Date

1976

Medium

bronze

Type

sculpture

Owner

SFU Art Collection

Accession Number

NA

Location

Simon Fraser University

Category

SFU Art Collection

Collection

Public Art

Lat/Long

49.279496,-122.913895

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Donated to SFU in 2006, Ritual Head is one of three bronze sculptures installed in the Saywell Courtyard. All three sculptures were created by Sorel Etrog, a Romanian-Canadian artist known for his large, abstract sculptures. Commencing his studies in Israel in the early 1950s and subsequently moving to New York, Etrog's visual language was forged through interests in Surrealism and close study of anthropological collections held in New York museums. Etrog moved to Toronto in 1963 where he established himself as a prominent figure within Canadian modern art. His forms register as levers, hinges and blades, but also resemble limbs and lobes — articulating correlations between body and machine, but also mind and matter, memory and language. This work is part of the Simon Fraser University Art Collection. The SFU Art Collection contains over 5,800 works. Approximately 1,000 works of art are shown throughout the campus and integrated in public, administrative and common learning spaces. A selection of the most accessible in this diverse repository are incorporated into the City of Burnaby Public Art Registry. For more extensive information about the holdings at SFU, visit: https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/Collections.html (text provided by SFU)

Sorel Etrog, CM, (1933-2014) was a Romanian-born Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor. He specialised in modern art works and contemporary sculpture.