Milton Keynes Project
Views of the site-specific. © Carlos Bunga.
Milton Keynes Gallery +info
This was Bunga’s first project in the UK. He was commissioned by the Milton Keynes Gallery director, Michael Stanley, to make a new site-specific for the space.
Bunga presented one of his complex architectural structures made from corrugated cardboard held together with packing tape. The structures take over the environment they inhabit, encouraging an alternative reading of the original space and emphasizing the instability of architecture. There is a possibility of growth and change; the constructions mutate, develop, extend and remain in a state of transformation, to be walked through by the audience.
From the gallery, it has been stated:
“These constructions, it may be perceived, embrace the temporal nature of life. The accelerated speed of the process from construction to destruction, birth to death, coupled with the fragility expressed in the weakness of materials, emphasises the instability of architecture and is a symbolic reflection on the transience of existence. Always, there is a possibility of growth and change: the constructions mutate, develop, extend and remain in a state of transformation, resonating with the constant shifts and changes of Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau. Just like the Merzbau, at the end, nothing of the intervention remains; the materials are cleared away, the original space is returned to its former self and all that remains is photographic evidence and memory.”
Views of the site-specific. © Carlos Bunga.
Curator: Michael Stanley
2006. Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
