Marxitecture
Views of the site-specific. © Carlos Bunga.
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The gallery described Bunga’s work as follows:
“Marxitecture is a site-specific installation that, through the use of fragile yet stabile packing material such as cardboard, seeks to produce a confrontation between the architectural exterior and its (typically) cordoned-off, detached interior space.
The installation is the result of a process-oriented approach by Bunga that presents in the gallery space a paradoxical tension between, on the one hand, the seemingly ephemeral, almost trivial quality of the material in use and, alternatively, the ice-cold, majestic “eternity” embodied by Karl-Marx-Allee – the grand boulevard of Socialism. Bunga’s structure allows the eye to freely adopt multiple perspectives on the distanced, vacuum-sealed representational architecture of Karl-Marx-Allee, particularly in its emphasis on the ceremonial exterior. Marxitecture relates principles of modular architecture and pre-fabrication, both of which display an extensive use of the grid in the tradition of the Bauhaus as well as in Socialist mass housing (the typical Berliner “Plattenbau”), transforming Bunga’s installation into an associative, fragmentary image.”
2009. Berlin, Germany.
