> 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 >
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