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Brian Junge (born April 29, 1970 in Fort St. John , British Columbia , Canada ) is a Canadian artist with Swiss and Indian roots. He attracted international attention with a series of masks (“Prototype for New Understanding”), which were reminiscent of cult objects of North American Indians and consisted of cut Nike sneakers.

Life and accomplishments

Brian Junge was born in 1970 in Canada to a Dunne-za mother and a Swiss national. In 1992 he graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and then appeared as an artist. With his series of sneakers he was able to attract attention at the time. In 2002 he received the Sobey Art Award , the most highly endowed Canadian award for young artists, for his services .

In 2012, Jungs took part in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel , where he showed his work dog run in the Auepark .

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dOCUMENTA website (13) ( memento of the original from March 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / d13.documenta.de
  2. ↑ http://www.ago.net/brian-jungen-and-duane-linklater-modest-livelihood page of the museum on the exhibition, accessed on April 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Boys, brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian artist with Swiss-Indian roots
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort St. John , British Columbia , Canada