Architecture of Life
Views of the exhibition. ⓒ Carlos Bunga.
Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães +info
This exhibition was previously presented at MAAT - Museum of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Technology.
“My project is a kind of architecture; it’s not a real space but a mental idea.” Carlos Bunga’s sculptural and painterly structures propose architecture as both body and mindscape. The exhibition began with a small model of social housing where the artist grew up. It is the beginning of a journey from the miniature to the monumental. Using only cardboard and paint, Bunga builds fantastical architectural models, furniture as sculptures and paintings as immersive environments.
His works combine a powerful materiality with the evocation of psychic states. Animated by films of his actions and performances, along with documentation of a decade of works, this is the first major survey of Bunga’s work. Enacting cycles of construction and destruction, Bunga explores states of dispossession and nomadism; the nature of spatial experience; and the creative and symbolic potential of ruins.
Views of the exhibition. ⓒ Carlos Bunga.
PERFORMANCE
Performers in action. ⓒ Carlos Bunga.
Curator: Iwona Blazwick
2019. Guimarães, Portugal.
