Research Catalog

Title

• Carlos Bunga : something necessary and useful / edited by Emily Butler with Inês Costa.

Publication

London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• Bunga, Carlos, 1976-
• Butler, Emily,
• Costa, Inês,
• Whitechapel Art Gallery, host institution.

Description

190 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

Published on the occasion of the new Whitechapel Gallery commission for 2020 by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga, who creates dynamic site-specific ephemeral structures.0Originally training as a painter, Carlos Bunga (b. 1976 Porto, lives and works in Barcelona) uses mass-produced materials such as cardboard, adhesive tape, and household paint to produce large-scale installations. Created in dialogue with the existing architectural space, these ephemeral structures recall theatre sets, architectural models, or temporary shelters, inviting viewers to rethink their physical and emotional experience of space and architecture. By giving equal importance to creation and destruction, he also evokes the fragile nature of urban structures, with the traces of his works bringing to mind dispossession and the symbolic potential of ruins.0For his new commission at Whitechapel Gallery the artist will create two different painted structures that will shift during the course of exhibition, creating a new construction that can be seen from four viewing areas with other objects and works in conversation with the space. This gesture will be complemented by inviting dancers to respond to the space before and after its transfer.0The fully illustrated catalogue will include new installation photography documenting the commission.00Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (21.01.-06.09.2020).

Subject

• Bunga, Carlos, 1976-
• Bunga, Carlos, 1976- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Folded book type no distinct spine.

Contents

Introduction / Iwona Blazwick -- Carlos Bunga in conversation with Emily Butler -- Materiality will be rethought: dance and the exhibition space / Joe Moran -- Carlos Bunga and the Shakers / Inês Costa.

ISBN

• 0854882847
• 9780854882847

LCCN

• 2019467339
• 99989409983

OCLC

• on1117313713
• 1117313713

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries