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Carlos Bunga
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Porto, Portugal
Alma materEscola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, BFA, 2003

Carlos Bunga (born 1976) is a Barcelona-based artist from Porto, Portugal. He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design de Caldas da Rainha in 2003.[1] He has exhibited across the Americas and Europe since the early 2000s.

Work and career edit

Though trained as a painter, Bunga works primarily with ephemeral and mass-produced materials such as cardboard, tape, and household paint to create site-specific installations which often take the form of life-size architectural models.[2] “Cardboard,” Bunga notes on his choice of materials, “is very easy to work with, very easy to manipulate, and it carries all those ideas about temporality, about story, about memory and about fragility…The use of materials like cardboard and tape also implies the temporary existence of the installations and changes their physical form."[3] The genesis of his pieces emerges from moving through the spaces he works within, generating a dialogue with the architecture that will house the work.

Bunga also creates video works which document his performances of dismantling the installations, which he describes as a metaphorical way to “speed up the temporality of architecture with [his] own body,” opening up new possibilities through the process of unmaking and decay.[4] Through his work, Bunga not only encourages viewers to rethink their experience of space and architecture, but also evokes the transient and fragile nature of urban structures.[5]

He has participated in Manifesta 5 in San Sebastián (2004), inSite_05 at the San Diego Museum of Art (2005); 14th Carrara International Sculpture Biennial (2010), 29th Bienal de São Paulo (2010); and Artes Mundi 6 in Cardiff (2013).[1]

Selected exhibitions edit

Selected solo exhibitions edit

Selected group exhibitions edit

Selected collections edit

Selected bibliography edit

  • Bunga, Carlos. Time / Temporality. Cru Editions, Barcelona 2017
  • Bunga, Carlos. DNA. Artphilein Books, Lugano, Switzerland 2015 ISBN 978-8-8940-8430-6
  • Jecu, Marta. Architecture and the Virtual. Intellect, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2015 ISBN 978-1-7832-0945-3
  • Gonzales, Elyse A. The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art. ex. cat. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara 2013 ISBN 978-0-9420-0676-6
  • Carlos Bunga, Sonae/Serralves Project, Serralves Museum, Porto 2012 ISBN 978-3-943514-24-7
  • Bunga, Carlos. A Temporalidade do espaço, Athena, Lisbon 2010 ISBN 978-9-8931-0011-0
  • Unmonumental. ex. cat. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2007 ISBN 978-0-7148-6310-8
  • Carlos Bunga, Milton Keynes Project. Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes 2006 ISBN 978-0-9553-4400-8
  • Carlos Bunga. Culturgest, ex cat. Porto 2006

References edit

  1. ^ a b Wright, Karen (2015-02-05). "Carlos Bunga, artist: 'I work with an open mind and do not know what". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  2. ^ Sommer, Danielle (2013-04-29). "Carlos Bunga". Art in America. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  3. ^ Enright, Robert (June 2016). "The Continuous Contradiction: Making and Unmaking in the Art of Carlos Bunga". Border Crossings. Winnipeg. p. 28.
  4. ^ ibid.
  5. ^ Schwabsky, Barry (November 2015). "Barry Schwabsky on Carlos Bunga". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-06-26.

External links edit

Category: 1976 births Category: Portuguese artists Category: Contemporary artists Category: Installation artists


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