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Escola 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
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]
Jecu, Marta. Architecture and the Virtual. Intellect, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2015
ISBN978-1-7832-0945-3
Gonzales, Elyse A. The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art. ex. cat. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara 2013
ISBN978-0-9420-0676-6
Carlos Bunga, Sonae/Serralves Project, Serralves Museum, Porto 2012
ISBN978-3-943514-24-7