Breathing
Carlos Bunga
Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon
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Première
- Title
- Breathing
- Gallery
- Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon
- Year
- 2019-2020
- Duration
- 8 min 50 s
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
In 1912, the first hydroelectric power station in Catalonia was built in the Catalan Pyrenees.Due to themultiple work accidents occurring to the workers, thecompany installed a fieldhospital with a wooden structure and felt-board walls.Bunga in 2019 decided to visit the ruinsof the place and was reunited with everything that characterizehis artistic praxis: the idea ofruin, absence, the superimposed pictorial layers, the textures thatcorrespond to its differentuses, the force of nature, architecture as a third skin, the self-constructionand the organicityof the materials. This led him to document the ruins with his phone. The postproductioncoincided with Covid-19 pandemic, when new field hospitals were springing around theworld,while the cardboard one continued to crumble in the forest. Bunga added the sound of hisownbreathing to the work: everything transforms and connects, from the first to the lastbreath.
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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. Carlos Bunga has had solo shows at Palacio de Cristal, Madrid (2022); Secession, Wien (2021); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); MOCA, Toronto (2020); MAAT, Lisbon (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2018); MACBA, Barcelona (2015); Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2015): Museo Amparo, Puebla, México (2014); MUAC – Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F. (2013); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2012); Fundação Serralves, Oporto (2012); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); Miami Art Museum (2009). He was invited to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015), 29th Bienal de São Paulo (2010), Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004). Bunga was awarded the International Art Prize at Grand Rapids, Michigan (2013) and was short-listed for Artes Mundi 6 Prize, Cardiff (2015).
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Galeria Vera Cortês
- Address
- Rua João Saraiva Nº 16, 1º, 1700-250, Lisbon, Portugal
- Phone
- T (+351) 213 950 177
- ov@veracortes.com
- Website
- www.veracortes.com
Galeria Vera Cortês was founded by Vera Cortês in 2006, in Lisbon, Portugal. Initially an agency dedicated to the development of specific projects by emerging artists (2003-2006), Vera Cortês decided to expand the program and became a gallery in order to create more opportunities to establish a longstanding and continuous collaboration with each artist. The gallery represents both national and international artists whose work spans across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Committed to organising monographic exhibitions by its represented artists and promoting them on an international scale, the gallery also realizes projects and exhibitions with different curators and other artists to further the creation and exchange of contemporary artistic production.