{"id":31573,"date":"2019-06-24T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=31573"},"modified":"2019-06-23T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T15:33:54","slug":"a-gallery-is-transformed-into-a-basketball-court-at-the-ago-in-brian-jungen-friendship-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=31573","title":{"rendered":"A gallery is transformed into a basketball court at the AGO in Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Air Jordan sneakers transformed into masks, golf bags into totems, a whale skeleton made of patio chairs, a gallery resembling a gymnasium \u2013 Brian Jungen’s singular vision\u00a0has returned to Toronto\u00a0in\u00a0a compelling major exhibition at the AGO.\u00a0<\/strong>Brian Jungen:\u00a0Friendship Centre<\/a> explores this internationally renowned artist’s unique approach to sculpture and large-scale installations made from everyday objects. This exhibition includes a broad range of Jungen’s work, including sculpture, painting, drawing and film, and offers a revealing look into his personal archive. \u00a0Curated by\u00a0Kitty Scott, the AGO’s Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, this is the first major solo exhibition by a contemporary Indigenous artist to be featured in the AGO’s marquee Sam & Ayala Zacks Pavilion and is on view now.

It is also the first major exhibition to open since the AGO announced its groundbreaking pricing changes.\u00a0Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre\u00a0is free for AGO Members, AGO Annual Pass holders and visitors 25 years and under. Annual Passes provide unlimited admission for an entire year for only $35, including the AGO Collection and all special exhibitions. For more details about the Annual Pass or to become a Member, visit\u00a0ago.ca.<\/a>

Jungen (b.1970) is well known for multidisciplinary art making that explores a long history of cultural inequality, a concern for the environment and a profound commitment to Indigenous ways of knowing and making. The exhibition includes 20 of Jungen’s critically acclaimed Prototype masks, as well as a large number of new Air Jordan sculptures and masks, several of which have never before been seen in Canada.

The exhibition is striking in its ambition, with one part transformed into a full-sized basketball court. “<\/em>With\u00a0Friendship Centre,\u00a0Brian is asking us to imagine the AGO as an important Indigenous space. Gymnasiums\u2014open and multipurpose\u2014are crucial hubs on reserves. Friendship Centres located in major cities perform a different but related purpose. Both are important gathering spaces, and the exhibition reflects that,”<\/em> says Kitty Scott, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.

Too large to fit inside the Sam and Ayala Zacks Pavilion, Jungen’s monumental installation\u00a0‘Furniture Sculpture’\u00a0(2006), will be on view in Walker Court from July 5 to July 23, 2019. A teepee made of skinned leather sofas, the artwork measures 27 feet high by 22 feet in diameter.\u00a0\u00a0

‘Brian Jungen:\u00a0Friendship Centre’\u00a0runs until Aug. 25, 2019. For more details, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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