Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati celebrates its 50th anniversary with tribute to John Cage

CINCINNATI, OH.- Carl Solway Gallery celebrates its 50th Anniversary and the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth with a tribute to Cage (1912-1992), the avant-garde American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and visual artist. In the words of Carl Solway, “No one was more influential in helping to shape both my personal life and my professional career than John Cage. His thinking influenced and expanded the nature of music, dance, painting and our perception of both art and life.” The friendship between Carl Solway and John Cage began in 1968, when he was an artist- in- residence at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. Their association led to the publication in 1969 of Cage’s first visual graphic works titled Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, consisting of eight editioned sculptural objects called Plexigrams and two lithographs. These early works, created in tribute to Marcel Duchamp (

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