judy,
thanks for looking these up and posting. i'm wondering if Jungen is the
same artist whose stunning work was exhibited a few years ago at the
Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario). maybe someone out there knows?
linda in michigan (happy to be back after a long hiatus from artsednet)
On Oct 29, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Judy Decker wrote:
> Good article from Washington Post:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/ > AR2005102301531.html
>
> Wow...check these out:
> http://www.secession.at/art/2003_jungen_e.html > "Brian Jungen's sculptures are among the central artistic
> contributions to current reformulations of ethnological and cultural
> evolutionary perspectives. In this respect, Jungen, who belongs to the
> culture of the Dàne-Zaa Indians (First Nations), does not pursue the
> reanimation of a marginalized (image) language and symbolism. Instead,
> his works show culture as a fusion of cultures, so that the belief in
> an authenticity and a preeminence in terms of both an Indian and a
> dominant Western tradition is called into question. In addition, his
> works emphasize the significance of an aesthetic language as a tool
> for an emancipatory cultural criticism." (quoted from Secession site)
>
> http://www.newmuseum.org/now_cur_brianjungen.htm
