Brian Jungen - Canadian Artists

Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations roots; he is based now in Vancouver. Jungen was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia on April 29, 1970. He graduated his degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1992.
Jungen’s art draws upon the tradition of “found art,” took up by such twentieth-century artists as Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. Instead of presenting objects “as-is,” nevertheless, Jungen often reworks them without fully hiding their original meaning or purpose. For instance, Jungen’s series Prototypes of New Understanding consists of indigenous masks assembled from parts of Nike Air Jordan shoes and also hand-sewn. Jungen writes: “It was attractive to see how by just manipulating the Air Jordan shoes you could suggest specific cultural traditions whilst simultaneously amplifying the process of cultural corruption and assimilation. The Nike mask sculptures seemed to eloquent a paradoxical relationship between a industrial artefact and an ‘authentic’ native artifact.”







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