On view October 3 to December 12, 2010
Public Opening: Sunday, October 3, 2-4 pm

Ernest Daetwyler
life is but a dream

The Gallery is pleased to present interactive and site-specific works by Swiss-Canadian installation artist Ernest Daetwyler.

Employing new and established media, interactive projects, video as well as sculptural pieces, the exhibition is presented in all three exhibition spaces. The artist explores issues of time, memory, disembodiment and the current cultural state. For Daetwyler, this discourse has been expanding into an experience and interplay between tangible reality and ephemeral illusions.

The last line, "life is but a dream" in “Row, Row, Row Your Boat", a nursery rhyme and a popular children's song often sung as a round, inspired the exhibition title for the artist.

During the exhibition, a catalogue will be produced and launched, a survey covering a selection of the artist’s projects from 1998-2010 in Canada and abroad.

The multi-disciplinary projects, installations and interventions of Ernest Daetwyler are presented internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2009 Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award for Visual Arts, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, N.Y.
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Image: Ernest Daetwyler, Forest Cell Sph[air]es, International Forest Art Path, Darmstadt Germany, 2006. Image by the artist.