GIGANTISME — ART & INDUSTRIE. Chapter 1: Mental Landscapes
Views of the installations outside and inside the venue. ⓒ Aurélien Mole.
GIGANTISME — ART & INDUSTRIE. Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France +info
For this exhibition set at Halle AP2 (‘Atelier de Préfabrication n° 2’) in Dunkirk, Bunga created the site-specific Cathédrale entirely out of cardboard and tape - an architecture of vertiginous vertical lines that dialogues with the host building. By adorning and entire wall of the building, he invites the public to rediscover the heritage site, which is the last vestige of the port’s old shipyards, known locally as “the cathedral” because of its size.
Initiated in Dunkirk in 2019 by the Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France and the LAAC – Musée de France, the Triennale ART & INDUSTRIE explores the convergences between these two fields and its sources of friction and contradictions. It calls up a history of heavy post-war port and industrial activity that is now reinventing itself in a context of profound economic and ideological changes. Located in a geographical and cultural crossroads (United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany), it pursues an artistic and poetic exploration of these encounters, combined with social, economic and environmental issues. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it includes work from artists, engineers, designers and architects.
Curators: Keren Detton, Grégory Lang, Géraldine Gourbe and Sophie Warlop.
2019. Dunkirk, France.
