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Cratylus
Simon Glass
1/6/2009 - 2/2/2009
INDEXG
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 2-6 pm |
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INDEXG is pleased to present a new body of work by Toronto based artist Simon Glass. Cratylus is a suite of 8 giclee prints with gold leaf that takes its title from Plato's dialogue on language written in 360 B.C.E. Hermogenes, easily influenced and uncertain, argues with Socrates that language is based on convention. Cratylus, more certain, and fixed in his ways, insists that language is natural. The images of fossils, indexes of prehistoric (and prelinguistic) life forms, are juxtaposed with textual references to language - biblical, mystical, historical and contemporary.
Simon Glass graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1983 and completed an MA in Media and Communications at the European Graduate School in 2005. He was a founding member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. His recent work combines photographic imagery with text to examine the possibilities and impossibilities of language. His work has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and internationally. He is a recipient of numerous awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Simon teaches photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Simon Glass is presently represented by INDEXG in Toronto.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday January 10, from 2 to 6 pm. The artist will be present for interviews.
The dialogue can be viewed at:
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/cratylus.html |
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INDEXG
50 Gladstone Avenue
Toronto, M6J 3K6 Ontario
Gallery Hours: 1-6 pm (Wednesday to Sunday)
416.535.6957
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