Toronto sculptor's touring European exhibition now at Art Gallery of Ontario
Top: Eran Penny and Old Self, Variation #, 1960 Left: young Penny . "HOPE I DIE BEFORE GET OLD" (Oops too late) Maybe, says Canadian artist but that was a long time AGO From the Huffington Post by Stephen Weir http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/../../stephen-weir/evan-penny-ago_b_1964942.html It was the sixties. Vietnam. Nuclear testing in the Pacific. Sgt Pepper. And, t he Who singing they hoped th eir generation would die before it got old. What could be worse than aging? Cutting your hair? Buying a suit? Cubicles? Getting a mortgage? The song didn't work. Most of us lived. We all grew old. Overnight. No one thought about what was going to happen as the aging process took hold ... except maybe Canadian sculptor, Evan Penny. When Peter Townsend wrote My Generation (with that famous dying line) it was 1965 and the Who w ere pointing out that older people just "don't get it". Evan Penny was 12-years old and h