CARLOS BUNGA: PERFORMATIVE INTERVENTION ON HIS PROJECT IN THE PALACIO DE CRISTAL

The action proposed by Carlos Bunga is a reflection of the very architecture-failure that the Crystal Palace symbolizes for him. For me, -says Bunga- the work is alive and in constant transformation. Memory, fragility or temporality play a central role in performance, allowing me to question the order and solidity of architecture as a language of power.

Against the Extravagance of Desire opened its doors almost three months ago, and during this time thousands of people have visited this installation that plays with the natural environment of the Retiro Park and with concepts such as time and space, fundamental in Bunga's work, that resizes the experience of a viewer who not only contemplates the work, but also integrates into it and transforms it.

Carlos Bunga's work has been exhibited in international museums and art centers such as the Museu de Serralves in Porto (2012), the MUAC-UNAM University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City (2013), the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA, 2015), the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2015), the Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia de Lisboa (MAAT, 2019), the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2020) or the Vienna Secession (2021) . He has also participated in the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) and in Manifesta 5 (2004) held in Donostia-San Sebastián.