Brian Jungen and his Contemporary Interview

Benjamin:

I found contemporary this week. I liked it, i think i'll find it again. Mmmmm interviews...

But I digress.

Brian Jungen is an american artist who's work deals with ethnicities, stereotypes and pop icons. The first thing that grabbed my eye was shoes. Lots of shoes. Air Jordan shoes. Turns out these shoes are recreations of west-coast natives masks, which were shown in Harlem connecting the two cultures, old and new. Awesome. Oh, Michael Jordan tried to buy one, couldn't, so Jungen made him one. HA!

Kinda interesting in the way we connected man-made and natural, he connects new man-made and man-made that is so old it seems natural. Interesting.

After the shock of shoes, on the next page was a strange structure that was covered in carpet. Then i saw the cat. Turns out to be a structure he made out of a failed housing project to house all of the stray cats in Montreal. KITTY!
Then they didn't talk about it.

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So, i believe the moral of the story is help kittys and sell things to rich basketball players.

thankyou for your time.

(spot the kitties, theres two)




Images:
http://www.secession.at/art/images/2003_jungen/jungen1.jpg
http://www.catrionajeffries.com/images/works/b_jungen/full/07_BJ_Habitat_04.jpg