Galería Elba Benítez

Carlos Bunga

Porto, Portugal, 1976
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain

Carlos Bunga creates process-oriented works in various formats — sculptures, paintings, drawings, performances, video, and above all in situ installations that refer to and intervene in their immediate architectural surroundings.

While often using ordinary, unassuming materials such as packing cardboard and adhesive tape, Bunga’s work involves a highly developed aesthetic sense and sensibility characterized by an intense study of color and materiality. Straddling the divide between sculpture and painting, Bunga’s works are deceptively delicate and yet fully commanding in their spatial and perceptual presence.

Beyond its materiality, Bunga’s work involves a conceptual complexity derived from the inter-relationships between doing and undoing, remaking and unmaking, the micro and the macro, investigation and conclusion, imagination and memory., while at the same time they emphasize the performative — and thereby temporal — aspect of the creative act and the resultant art object.

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Carlos Bunga. La Capella, 2015
Carlos Bunga. La Capella, 2015
Carlos Bunga. Desplazamientos psíquicos, 2015
Carlos Bunga. Desplazamientos psíquicos, 2015
Carlos Bunga. Desplazamientos psíquicos, 2015
Carlos Bunga. Intento de conservación, 2014
Carlos Bunga. Ecosystem, 2013
Carlos Bunga. Ecosystem, 2013
Carlos Bunga. Khôra, 2013
Carlos Bunga. Frieze New York (installation view), 2013
Carlos Bunga. Mausoléu, 2012
Carlos Bunga. Proyecto Agora, 2012
Carlos Bunga. Landscape, 2011
Carlos Bunga. Simultaneous, fragmented, discontinuous, 2010
Carlos Bunga. SDMA Project, 2005
Carlos Bunga. SDMA Project, 2005
Carlos Bunga. Proyecto elba benítez, 2005
Carlos Bunga. ESAD Project, 2002
Carlos Bunga. Construcción pictórica #11, 2013
Carlos Bunga. Construccion pictórica #8, 2013
Carlos Bunga. Construccion pictórica #4, 2012
Carlos Bunga. Untitled, 2008
Carlos Bunga. Corner
Carlos Bunga. Corner
Carlos Bunga. Fragmento #21, 2011
Carlos Bunga. Fragmento #3, 2011
Carlos Bunga. Exhibition “Laboratorio”, 2010
Carlos Bunga. Untitled, Model #16, 2004
Carlos Bunga. Untitled, Model #3, 2002
Carlos Bunga. Fragmentación #8, 2011
Carlos Bunga. Estudio #9, 2011
Carlos Bunga. Estudio #2, 2011
Carlos Bunga. Behind, 2000
Carlos Bunga. Lamp, 2002
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