Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre

Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Prestel
Country
Germany
Published
1 November 2019
Pages
216
ISBN
9783791359281

Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre

Examining the career of Indigenous artist Brian Jungen, this gorgeously illustrated book highlights his ability to transform everyday objects into extraordinary sculpture. Born in the remote northern community of Fort St. John, British Columbia to an Indigenous mother and a Swiss-Canadian father, Brian Jungen’s dual heritage often provides the themes and subject matter for his work. Over the past twenty years, he has created an extensive and imaginative body of sculpture using repurposed material. This book looks at over 80 sculptures, drawings, and film stills, from whale skeletons composed of white plastic chairs and gas cans decorated with floral bead-work designs to totem pole-like forms constructed out of golf bags and Northwest Coast masks made out of repurposed sneakers. The book also includes a selection of archival materials including photographs, images of the artist working, unrealised works, and research pictures. Essays, an interview with the artist, and a timeline round out this generously illustrated book that details Jungen’s deep material explorations which highlight a long history of inequality, a concern for the environment, and a profound commitment to Indigenous ways of knowing and making. AUTHOR: Kitty Scott is the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. 400 colour illustrations

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