Brian Jungen Reinvents Jordans As Art
Above: Brian Jungen Variant I (2002)
Sorry to burst your air bag hypebeasts, but the Jordan hybrid trend ain’t nothin’ new. Canadian-based artist Brian Jungen has been ahead of the curve, blending silouhettes of the VI, XIII, and the XIV since way before the Dub Zero dropped.
Jungen’s signature work was a series he started in 1998 (through 2005) called Protoype for New Understanding. The collection featured 23 different masks, all made up of manually pieced together Jordan parts. According to Jungen’s wiki, they represent the relationship between a consumerist artifact and an ‘authentic’ native artifact. Doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense, but we can’t knock his hustle. Besides the kicks, he’s re-interpreted furniture, a whale-bone sculpture and football jerseys throughout his career. We bet you can guess our favorite remake. See more of his Jordan work in a gallery below…
