{"id":8840,"date":"2012-04-02T00:32:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2012-04-21T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:21:10","slug":"oleg-lipchenko-freudoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8840","title":{"rendered":"Oleg Lipchenko: Freudoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Freud 16. Creation of Adam. 2012. oil on canvas. 24″ x 24″<\/em><\/p>\n

April 5 \u2013 20, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, April 5, 6\u00a0\u2013 9 p.m.
\nArtist’s Talk: Sunday, April 15, 1\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>3 p.m.
\nBEZPALA BROWN GALLERY<\/strong>
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\nToronto, ON, M5E 1M2
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\nHours: Mon by appointment, Tues\u2013<\/strong>Wed 11:00\u2013<\/strong>6:00 p.m., Thurs\u2013<\/strong>Sat 11:00\u2013<\/strong>8.00 p.m., Sun 11:00\u2013<\/strong>6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Sigmund Freud dreamed of building a very special device to explore people’s dreams. He even had a name for it\u2014”Freudoscope.” Colleagues and friends didn’t take it seriously. They joked derisively. Dr. Freud seemed not to be offended, or he just pretended not to take the jokes seriously. He just smiled mysteriously, as he thought: “Well, go ahead\u2014laugh, we’ll see if am I right or I am wrong, I know what I’m doing.”<\/p>\n

But no one knew that he actually had built such a machine…<\/p>\n

This project is called\u00a0FREUDOSCOPE; Unknown Facts and Speculations about the Life and Death of Famous Dr. F.<\/em>\u00a0Dr. Freud was one of the first pop-stars of the twentieth century. His behavior in public, his attitude, his attention to his own appearance, as well as his not appearing at any Psychoanalytics conference or congress, leads one to conclude that he was a successful professional self-promoter rather than a modest scientist. His influence on the evolution of psychology in the twentieth century is more an object for anthropologists and philosophers of science. But, as a visual artist, I couldn’t just pass by such an intriguing topic. So, here you go, I present to you my interpretation of Freud through the FREUDOSCOPE.<\/p>\n

Oleg Lipchenko<\/p>\n

About Oleg Lipchenko<\/h6>\n

Oleg Lipchenko, artist and illustrator. Oleg works on oil paintings and graphic art. His style can be described as symbolic, surrealistic, and plastically sophisticated, with the emphasis on expressiveness. He has had a number of solo and group exhibitions. His illustrator’s experience includes children’s books, book covers and scientific illustrations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oleg works in traditional media including oil on canvas, watercolour, pencil and ink. He uses print graphics such as xylography, linoprint and l’eauforte and digital enhancement (for technical purposes such as scanning, color adjustment, etc.). In 2009, Oleg Lipchenko won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award from IBBY for his illustrations in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Tundra Books, 2009). His Humpty Dumpty and Friends (Tundra Books, 2009) was nominated for the 2010 Book of the Year Awards by ForeWord Reviews. Recently Oleg has completed illustrations to the\u00a0Hunting of the Snark\u00a0by Lewis Carroll and illustrations for this Freudoscope exhibition.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oleg studied art and architecture in Art School and at the University in Poltava, Ukraine. He worked as an architect for several years, and as a teacher of drawing, painting and composition in the Art School. Oleg relocated to Canada in 1999. He lives in Toronto with his family and has embraced the Ontario way of life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 5\u201320, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, April 5, 6\u20139 p.m.
\nArtist’s Talk: Sunday, April 15, 1\u20133 p.m.<\/p>\n

BEZPALA BROWN GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lipchenko reveals and depicts the unknown facts and speculations about the famous Dr. Sigmund Freud<\/p>\n

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