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Willem de Kooning
Feb, 2012
The Globe and Mail Features Border Crossings' New Issue
Jun 06, 2011
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Brian Jungen gets the big-deal Border Crossings treatment: a 17-page feature, including 11 photographs of his art bracketed by an interview with the magazine’s unfailingly erudite senior contributing editor Robert Enright.
At 41, the B.C.-born Jungen is a major art star here and internationally, famed for the way he takes, well … things – Air Jordan sneakers, blue boxes, golf bags, chairs, baseball gloves, couches, even chest freezers – to turn them into other things or, in the case of the chest freezers, to repurpose them as plinths for sculptures. While the work conceptually owes a lot to Duchamp, arte povera, Warhol and installation art, Jungen’s background (first nations, Swiss) and orientation (gay) ensures that his output never lacks for some sort of political charge. At the same time, Jungen’s assiduousness in matching the right material with the most apt idea keeps his work formalistically fascinating. Sometimes, he tells Enright, he’ll discover a new material, then have to wait “a couple of years to actually figure out the direction I want to take [with] it.”
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