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Leopold Plotek was born in Moscow in 1948 and emigrated from Warsaw to Canada in 1960. Plotek’s titles invoke antiquity, scripture, mythology, Jewish mysticism and even Artie Shaw, an eclectic list that parallels the wide-ranging pictorial allusions of his mysterious, audacious paintings. Plotek aspires to the drama, seriousness, and sensuousness of the Venetian Renaissance and the High Baroque, ambitions that these days are usually synonymous with postmodernist irony and appropriation. The Montreal based Plotek, however, neither quotes verbatim nor updates historical compositions. Instead, he strives to invent in his own abstract language the qualities of past art that he admires. He casts the Grand Manner into late-20th-century terms and he filters the highest of high art through high modernism, all with street smart overtones. His work is featured in numerous museums, public and private collections.
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