1. BRIAN JUNGEN
By: Miriam Said

2. Prototypes for New Understanding (1998-2005)
Biography.
Born in 1970, on a farm in British Columbia
His father is from Switzerland.
His mother was aboriginal; a member of the Dane-zaee/Dunne-za Nation. She inspired his work as she also liked to “extend the life of object’, by transforming one object to something else.
1998, moved to Vancouver and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
After 4 years, he graduated with a diploma of visual arts.
He then resided at the Banff Centre for the arts (residency for artists, and a place of creativity) and that’s when he started his famous sculpture series:
Prototypes for New Understanding ( )

3. B. Jungen, Prototypes for New Understanding, Nike Air Jordan(1998-2005)

4. “One Man’s Trash is Brian Jungen’s Treasure”
B. Jungen, This Nameless Fear, Nike Air Jordans( )

5. What’s common in his art?
MEDIA APPROACH:
His artwork mainly consists of sculptures
- He uses shoes to create a lot of his artwork.
Native American Artwork (out of animal skin)
Recycled material.
His goal is to create something using an ordinary object, but he wants the viewer to be able to identify the original source.
PREFERED SUBJECT MATTER
- Aboriginal culture
- Showing the original source through it’s adapted form.
Ex.
Plastic chairs.
B. Jungen, Vienna, Plastic chairs(2003)

6. Favourite work of art:
- 6 sculptural forms of lava rock and soccer balls
It portrays the connection between everything
Lava rocks and soccer balls, whom no one would think have any connection, were brought together by David Jungen
This reflects on us as human and our relationships with everything surrounding us. The people, nature, soccer balls, and even lava rocks.
Brian Jungen
Modern Sculpture (After Iceland)
2005

7. Native American
B. Jungen, Furniture Sculpture, 11 black Natuzzi sofas(2006)
B. Jungen, Prototype of new understanding #5, Nike Air Jordans(1999)
“He's found a way to talk about an Indian experience using new materials and new ideas in a way that opens up a space for a lot of artists, native and otherwise”-NMAI curator Paul Chaat Smith

8. SHOES.
B. Jungen, This Nameless Fear, Nike Air Jordans, ( )
B. Jungen, Broken Arrangment, Nike Air Jordans, ( )
B. Jungen, Variend, Nike Air Jordans, (2002)
B. Jungen, Prototype for new Understanding #2, Nike Air Jordans and human hair, (1998)
REAL HAIR
B. Jungen, Lay Down Tender Fire, Nike Air Jordans, ( )
B. Jungen, Prototypes for new Understandings, Installation,, Vienna(2003)

9. RECYCLING. B. Jungen, Barricades, Fur,(2010)
B. Jungen, Water Hemlock, Carved gallon gasoline jug,(2008)
B. Jungen, Caraplace, Plastic recycling containers,( )

10. ANIMAL SKIN.
B. Jungen, Tomorrow Repeat, Moose hide, car fenders, chest freezer, steel, (2010)
B. Jungen, Mother Tongue Steel, deer hide, VW fenders, freezer, (2013)
B, Jungen, Eye, Freezer, deer hide, (2010)

11. Article about him:

12. Work Cited
"Catriona Jeffries." Brian Jungen · Works –. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept
"National Gallery of Canada." Brian Jungen -. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept
Gambino, Megan. "One Man's Trash Is Brian Jungen's Treasure." Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian, n.d. Web. 23 Sept

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