November 8 – 27, 2011
Opening, Saturday, November 10, 7-10 pm
HANG MAN GALLERY
756 Queen Street East (at Broadview Avenue)
Toronto, ON M4M 1H4
T: 416-465-0302
hangmangallery@gmail.com
www.ArtistsNetwork.ca.
Hours: Tues to Sun 12 – 5 pm
Hang Man Gallery is proud to announce CHINA’S DESIGNER WARRIORS, Margie Kelk’s photo based images depicting ancient Chinese warrior Zhong Kui, a spiritual guardian of high valued goods, as a modern-day Beau Brummel sporting designer duds in a world where fashion makes a man.
World over, designer fashions are social status identifiers in the public’s conscious. The perceived winners of China’s fashionable consumer class are chasing these ideals to become the new breed of warriors.
Kelk’s adjunct mix of iconic labels and classical figure is humorously poking at the paradox of the rising warrior class acquiring power for the status markings that its own underclass counterfeits.
This is an antidote to any hangover from Toronto’s fashion week event.