{"id":20646,"date":"2013-09-15T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=20646"},"modified":"2013-09-17T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:22:58","slug":"northern-suite-opening-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=20646","title":{"rendered":"Northern Suite \/ Opening Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 2 – 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\n Articsok Gallery<\/strong>
\n1697 St. Clair Avenue West (Between Keele and Landsdowne)<\/p>\n

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Articsok is a new gallery that opened its doors on May 11, 2013. Co-founders Csilla Csiki and Peter Alexander Por, both with a great passion for art, resolved to open an art gallery with a difference in a newly renovated and reclaimed space just north of Toronto\u2019s Junction art scene along Dundas West.\u00a0 What began as a private collection has evolved into a carefully curated showcase.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Artist Oleg Lipchenko (left) with Articsok Gallery owners Csilla Csiki and Peter Alexander Por.<\/p>\n

Their recent show Northern Suite, <\/em>by the Ukrainian born Canadian artist Oleg Lipchenko, explores issues of Canadian Identity with his Inuit inspired artwork.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Oleg Lipchenko, Raven<\/em>, graphite pencil, black ink on paper 11.5\u201d x 11.5\u201d, 2012,<\/p>\n

“We are living in myths. Our peace of mind requires that all the facts and elements of the ‘real world’ must be explained somehow. The myths of northern people are not fairy tales, they are (were) reality in its most understandable and meaningful state. The people of the North struggled to survive under extreme conditions at the ‘edge of the world,’ nevertheless forming a culture (a culture actually summarizing all their myths) so consummate and picturesque and in some aspects so different from the European (Western) tradition, that it fascinated me so deeply that it could not fail to inspire me.”\u00a0said Lipchenko about his current works.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Oleg Lipchenko, Reykjav\u00edk, Day, <\/em>oil on canvas, 24\u201d x 24\u201d, 2013<\/p>\n

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The show is open till October 1, 2013, Articsok Gallery at\u00a01697 St. Clair Avenue West (Between Keele and Landsdowne). Gallery hours: Wed – Sat 12 – 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Photo: Shannon Litt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 7, 2013, 2 – 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Articsok Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recently opened gallery’s current show by Oleg Lipchenko explores issues of Canadian Identity with his Inuit inspired artwork.<\/p>\n

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