CARLOS BUNGA
OPORTO / PORTO, PORTUGAL, 1976
Intento de conservación (Attempt to preserve), 2014
Cartón, pintura, cola, luces, vidrio / Cardboard, paint, glue, lights and glass
180 x 530 cm
Adquirido / Acquired 2014
Packing cardboard and tape are the signature materials Carlos Bunga used to create three dimensional paintings, sculpture and large-scale site-specific interventions. All refer to architecture, display and related protocols of viewing works of art. His constructions also seem to allude to the ephemeral constructions encountered in urban settings that provide shelter for transient people, therefore calling upon precariousness and fragility, as well as the contrast between permanent and temporary architecture, and the way it can or not adapt to changing conditions. One also thinks of the permanence of the exhibition space and the impermanence of the exhibition as two timeframes experienced in the same space. Straddling the divide between sculpture and painting, Bunga’s deceptively delicate works are characterized by an intense study of the combination of colour and materiality while, at the same time, they emphasize the performative aspect of the creative act.