Variations portugaises
Bunga’s paintings, to the left, at the exhibition. Courtesy: Centre Art Contemporain Meymac.
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This exhibition presented a panorama of the Portuguese art scene as part of the Les Printemps de Haute-Corrèze festival, dedicated to the promotion of Portugal.
Bunga’s work was included in the section Minimalist rigor and narrative abstraction, exploring the young Portuguese creation of the 80s and 90s related to minimalisms and post-conceptualism.
Jean-Paul Blanchet writes:
“These works, which blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, do not eliminate all narrative involvement, if only at the level of materials. They are characterized by sobriety and conciseness of form and economy materials. A relative erasure of the painting which, unlike that of their elders, is in this register as much geometric as informal.
The Construcción Pictórica. Vertical #1 and Vertical #2 by Carlos Bunga are made of wood and cardboard. They look like caissons used to cast partitions. They have to do with architecture, not in its visible part but in the image of modules from which they are inspired, forming the interior structure.”
Curators: Caroline Bissière and Jean-Paul Blanchet
2018. Meymac, France.
