FONS ÀUDIO #30
Carlos Bunga
Carlos Bunga (Portugal, 1976) tends to approach his enormous site-specific installations without a detailed plan, so that the exhibition set-up becomes a kind of laboratory. During this interval of time, which usually spans days, the properties of the exhibition space condition a process of thinking, corporality, and negotiation in real time, in which accidents are absorbed as a valuable raw material. The present moment is understood as an open experiment.
Bunga’s monumental structures constructed out of cardboard, tape and paint, and organised around different concepts each time, evoke the endless cycle of deterioration and regeneration of the urban fabric. Cut, Construction, Shadow and Untitled, the four video works that form part of the MACBA Collection, in some sense represent the initial stage of this working process. These small-scale works, produced in domestic environments, stem from the artist’s fascination with capturing and understanding the energy contained in decaying infrastructure, particularly in cities like Porto and Lisbon.
At the same time, they suggest a possible vocabulary of gestures that then recurred in much of his later work: the opening up of architecture and its transformation into pure process, the use of models and mockups as a means of storing the life of ideas, and the creation of a graphic language infiltrated in public space.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Carlos Garaicoa that we were unable to include the first time around.
Adrian Melis
In FONS AUDIO #41 Adrian Melis talks about contemporary Cuban art, about his formative years in Tania Brughera’s Cátedra de Arte Conducta, about the usefulness of art, and about production systems, consumer goods, dreams, and paradoxes.
Alfons Borrell
Alfons Borrell is one of the greatest exponents of Catalan abstract painting. He has gradually established a solid and highly expressive body of work of great intensity. His painting is a unique case in the artistic movements that shaped Catalan modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. In FONS AUDIO #31 Alfons Borrell takes us on a personal journey through his painting career, as he shares his ideas on art and life, memory and memories, nature and landscape.
Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa talks about his education in Cuba, about the pressing need to move beyond post-colonial narratives, about his cultural activism, and about 'Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos' ('I Don’t Want to See My Neighbours Any More'), which forms part of the MACBA Collection.
Sergi Aguilar
Sergi Aguilar talks about his initial steps in the field of jewellery and about postmodernism in Spain during the eighties, and offers us an overview of his artistic career and his working methods through an analysis of his works in the MACBA Collection.
Ignasi Aballí
From obsessive classifications to anti-paintings, from a constant probing of the role of the spectator to imperceptible modifications, Ignasi Aballí’s work is both hermetic and accessible. A delicate balance between concept and form that draws inspiration from everyday life, literature and film in order to talk about absences, filters, fictions and limits.