{"id":4975,"date":"2011-11-01T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2011-11-28T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T15:26:15","slug":"margie-kelk-china%e2%80%99s-designer-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"Margie Kelk: China\u2019s Designer Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/4zhongKuiImgWearsYvesStLaurent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4977\" title=\"4zhongKuiImgWearsYvesStLaurent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/4zhongKuiImgWearsYvesStLaurent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>November 8\u00a0&#8211;\u00a027,\u00a0 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening, Saturday, November 10,\u00a0 7-10 pm<br \/>\n<strong>HANG MAN GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n756 Queen Street East (at Broadview Avenue)<br \/>\nToronto, ON M4M 1H4<br \/>\nT: 416-465-0302<br \/>\nhangmangallery@gmail.com<br \/>\nwww.ArtistsNetwork.ca.<br \/>\nHours: Tues to Sun 12 \u2013 5 pm<\/p>\n<p>Hang Man Gallery is proud to announce CHINA\u2019S DESIGNER WARRIORS, Margie Kelk\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>World over, designer fashions are social status identifiers in the public\u2019s conscious. The perceived winners of China\u2019s fashionable consumer class are chasing these ideals to become the new breed of warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Kelk\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>This is an antidote to any hangover from Toronto\u2019s fashion week event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 8 &#8211; 27, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening, Saturday, November 10,  7-10 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>HANG MAN GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>depicting ancient Chinese warrior Zhong Kui, a spiritual guardian of high valued goods, as a modern-day Beau Brummel sporting designer duds<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4975\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}