Acquired directly from Walter Moos, Toronto
A Private Canadian Collection
Literature
Nicole Besharat, “Sorel Etrog : Recollecting things to come,” Nuvo Magazine, Winter 2001
Robert J. Belton, “The Art of Sorel Etrog and His Romanian Background,” Finnish Journal for Romanian Studies, Number 1, 2015, page 18
Etrog completed this mixed media work in 1973, a period when the artist was taking multiple trips to Florence, where he worked at the Michelucci foundry. In a 2001 interview, the artist described how found objects were thought-provoking to him, seeing in them “potential transformation…not what they are, but what they can become.” An eye screw that Etrog had found on a street in Toronto inspired the “Screws and Bolts” series (1971-73). In Ohne Titel, the twisting abstract forms are accented with ridges at some ends, referencing threads of a screw. Belton writes that “by the time [Etrog] arrived at his Florence studio, he was totally absorbed by the possibilities of using nuts, bolts, and screw eyes as a new means of expressing the increasing mechanization of humanity.”
