Performing Nature

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Mar 30

Written By Lou Calderón

View of the site-specific Habitar el color (2023), intervened by the audience. © Carlos Bunga.

Bombas Gens Centre d’Art +info

Bunga’s first major anthological exhibition in Spain. It reflects on the temporalities of nature, its shelters and its living and organic qualities, through a selection of representative works by the author ranging from the beginnings of his career to the present day, and including drawing, painting, collage, video, performance and sculpture – some of which have never been exhibited before.

His works, marked by a poetic approach to forms, are translated into geometric and abstract paintings, made by means of everyday materials such as cardboard sheets or adhesive tape, and sometimes introducing found natural elements: branches and leaves that intertwine and dilute in his compositions, integrating into a single material object that subtly leads us to question our own position in the world.

Starting from pictorial research, he has developed a personal language that deconstructs the discipline of painting, hybridizing elements of sculpture, architecture, installation, video and performance.

Here, he presents a site-specific like an expanded paintings sliding across floors and walls (seen in the pictures above); tensing the limits between mediums, rethinking traditional painting’s supports and surfaces, spreading them to other physical and conceptual places, and materializing in installation constructions that become performative spaces to be activated by the audience. Bunga understands the spectator as another element of the installation: his experience integrates the work itself and transforms it.