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Carlos Bunga: Something Necessary And Useful

 

The Portuguese artist creates monumental structures out of everyday materials.

The Portuguese artist creates monumental structures out of everyday materials such as cardboard, and repurposes domestic furnishings to create an evolving installation.

'When we walk in that space we are walking between the past and the future and we are the present'. Carlos Bunga (b. 1976, Portugal) creates monumental structures out of everyday materials to propose architecture as transitory and corporeal in his first major UK commission. Bunga makes cardboard constructions and repurposes domestic furnishings to create an evolving installation in dialogue with the historic interiors of the gallery and its public. He encourages us to get lost in the painted surfaces and openings he creates, to wander among items of adapted mobile furniture, and gaze up at large textured hanging canvases. Bunga draws on his own experience of displacement and loss; but he is also inspired by the American Shaker movement's insistence on simplicity in their interiors and furniture, exploring what is necessary and useful in art, architecture and design.