Hammer Projects: Carlos Bunga
Views of the site-specific. Photo: Brian Forrest. Courtesy: Hammer Museum.
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Bunga presented the site-specific construction “Landscape”, made in direct dialogue with the surrounding architecture. Largely improvised, the artist likens the process to making an abstract painting in three dimensions. He also presented drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos dating from 2002 to 2008, on view in the Lobby Gallery.
Corrina Peipon writes: “His interventions are demonstrations of and meditations on impermanence, illustrating a philosophical exploration of an ethical position. Drawn to that which is ephemeral and bears physical evidence of the passage of time, Bunga enacts decay to posit ideas about the present as a liminal, transformational space between the past and the future. As time passes, the present is constantly becoming the past, and the built environment is a physical expression of this process. His work underscores this ephemerality, reminding us that nothing is impervious to entropic forces. As the natural state of the world, impermanence is synonymous with transformation. To Bunga, decay and removal create ‘more space for another construction’, embodying the possibility of a better world”.
Views of the exhibition. Photos: Brian Forrest. Courtesy: Hammer Museum.
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Site-specific Landscape (2011) Courtesy: Hammer Museum.
Curator: Corrina Peipon
2011. Los Angeles, United States.
