Hammer Projects: Carlos Bunga

  • This is a past exhibition

Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass multiple mediums including collage, drawing, performance, sculpture, and video. In his architecturally scaled installations, Bunga uses mass-produced materials like cardboard, packing tape, and house paint to build structures that recall temporary shelters or life-size maquettes. Built over a period of weeks, his site-specific sculptures are made in direct dialogue with the surrounding architecture. Largely improvised, Bunga likens the process to making an abstract painting in three dimensions. Hammer Projects: Carlos Bunga will include a new work made on site for the Lobby Wall as well as a selection of Bunga’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos dating from 2002 to 2008 on view in the Lobby Gallery.

Organized by Corrina Peipon, curatorial associate.

Biography

Carlos Bunga was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1976 and was educated at Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. Bunga’s work has been the focus of one-person exhibitions at Culturgest, Porto (2005); Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, England (2006); MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain (2009); Miami Art Museum (2009); and Pinacoteca, Museu de São Paulo de Arte Contemporânea (2012). Group exhibitions that have featured his work include Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain (2004); Things Fall Apart All Over Again, Artists Space, New York (2005); Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, inSite_05, San Diego Museum of Art (2005); Unmonumental: The Object in the Twenty-First Century, New Museum, New York (2007); Construir, habitar, pensar, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain (2008); the twenty-ninth São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil (2010); and Delimitation, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel (2012). Bunga was awarded a visual arts grant by the Fundación Marcelino Botín in 2006.

Essay

Hammer Projects is made possible by a major gift from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
 
Generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy. Additional support is provided by Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the Decade Fund; and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.

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