From 8 April to 4 September at the Glass Palace, located in El Retiro Park, the Reina Sofia Museum is putting on an exhibition of ephemeral constructions by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga that explore the theme of location and cycles in nature, his biggest exhibition in Madrid to date.
Born in Porto (Portugal) in 1976, Carlos Bunga is an artist who lives and works in Barcelona and whose works investigate the interrelationships between facts, fabrication, imagination, and memory, which is why many of them have a strong performative aspect.
During his career, he has created sculptures, paintings, drawings, performance pieces, videos, and on-site installations that seek to relate to their surrounding architecture and environment. He's a follower of Gordon Matta-Clark, the precursor of anarchitecture, which tests the limits of traditional architecture. Thus, his pieces have a living component, and most are especially designed for a particular exhibition space.
In turn, he often uses everyday items such as cardboard and tape, while exploring the importance of colour and materiality. Moreover, when constructing them, he does not draw up any plans in advance, but instead uses intuition, leaving traces of the imperfections inherent to the process.
His compositions have been seen in galleries and museums such as the Museu de Serralves in Porto (2012), the University Museum of Contemporary Art MUAC-UNAM in Mexico City (2013), the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2020), and the Vienna Secession (2021).
Image Credits:
Carlos Bunga, Autumn Red. Wind, Rain and Movement, The Watermill Center, 2017
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