BUNGA: ARCHITECTURE AND COLOR, IN VERA CORTÊS
One of Carlos Bunga's (Porto, Portugal, 1976) most recognizable features is his way of interacting with architectural spaces. This conversation and intervention has a formal character in the use of materials and chromatic ranges, but also by the introduction of everyday objects that, from the very conception of architecture, reside in it to complement it. This led him to be interested in the most temporary and basic architecture, with flaws in its canonical perception, but equally existing in socially unfavorable environments.
To the use of these poor or dubious materials, the application of color follows the same pattern of imperfection. Layers applied far from the mechanical and perfect finish also appear in the conceptual field of the works that, in this line, the artist has developed. And it is from this origin that the voluntary essence of the unfinished nature of his production is extracted.
For Silence, the exhibition presented by the Lisbon gallery Vera Cortês, Bunga focuses on experimentation with painting more than in any other field, and pursues this line of argument of the unfinished and the precarious. Paintings applied on canvas or packed in boxes lead the viewer to visualize this architectural and construction plane, but also the temporality and status of the material.
As a technical novelty, Carlos Bunga uses for the first time the color black, a voluntary choice that recalls catastrophism and death, that natural agony that also transcends the social. For this reason, Silence is also as a space for reflection and meditation in order to embrace all that the room and its materials tell us.
Silence can be seen until October 31 at Vera Cortês Gallery, R. João Saraiva 16, 1º, Lisbon (Portugal).
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