Against the extravagance of desire

His installations — often impulsively off-scale maquettes — invoke the multiple possibilities of architecture at full strength. Floors, ceilings, walls and makeshift pillars introduce the temporality of constructive forms, while in the assembly of the installation its dismantling is already implicit. 

As ephemeral constructions, subject to the circumstantial nature of time and place, Carlos Bunga’s interventions also possess the capacity to deconstruct the spaces in which they are inserted, situationally, to then be resignified.

This project for the Palacio de Cristal is the continuation of the previous investigations with which Bunga introduces new layers of reading into a location that is already connoted in its own right. The cycles of nature that surround the Palacio, as well as the context in which the building was originally constructed, form some of the keys to his new installation, which interlocks the dialectic between the inside and outside of discourses.   

More info: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/carlos-bunga

Picture: Carlos Bunga, Autumn Red. Wind, Rain and Movement, Instalación en The Watermill Center, 2017, Cartón, cinta, pintura látex y pegamento, Photo: Ainhoa González