Citizen of The World
Installation views, Citizen of the World, The New Art Gallery Walsall © Jonathan Shaw. Cocoon no.3, Cocoon no.4, 2024, latex, plaster and glue on paper mâché. Nomad series 1-24, 2018, ink, collage and pencil on tracing paper and paper. Animisms, 2024, furniture, cardboard, textiles, paint and tape. House as a Skin, 2024, fabric, thread and glue.
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Bunga explores his nomadic perspective on the world through painting, drawing, video, and sculpture, including themes of home, transformation, possibility, and adaption.
One of the highlights is a large series of unseen drawings referring to the artist’s childhood experience of moving between temporary dwellings that were often vulnerable to collapse and sometimes disappeared from history. These works are complimented by a film made a decade earlier showing the artist vigorously erasing drawings of real and imagined buildings to make way for other constructions.
Early drawings of domestic objects are presented within an immersive in situ gallery installation composed of familiar household objects transformed by the architectural cardboard structures rising from them. A large textile house and cocoon sculptures connect the artist’s longstanding interest in the built environment with animal houses in nature.
He also created a new large format painting for the Gallery’s street-facing window box space, involving twigs and leaves foraged from his home surroundings entwined in house paint.
ANIMISM (2024)
Animisms (details), 2024, furniture, cardboard, textiles, paint and tape. Installation views, Citizen of the World, The New Art Gallery Walsall © Jonathan Shaw
WORKS
Cocoon no.3, Cocoon no.4, 2024, latex, plaster and glue on paper mâché. House as a Skin (detail), 2024, fabric, thread and glue. Untitled (The New Art Gallery Walsall) (detail), 2024, leaves, litter, paint, glue and plaster on wood, furniture and others. Exhibition views, Citizen of the World, The New Art Gallery Walsall © Jonathan Shaw
Nomad, House no17, 2022, latex, paper mâché, wood and paint. Carlos Bunga, More Space for Other Constructions (detail), 2007-2008, single channel video with stereo sound. Exhibition views, Citizen of the World, The New Art Gallery Walsall © Jonathan Shaw
Curator: Zoë Lippett
2024. Walsall, England.
