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6/12/2012

Patricia Dauder and Carlos Bunga

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto

The second edition of the Sonae/Serralves Project invited Patricia Dauder (Barcelona, 1973) and Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976). In the course of a residency in Porto, both artists produced original works that will be displayed at the restaurant and entrance hall of the Museum.
The Catalonian artist drew a large panel in which, resorting only to the possibilities of graphite, she added landscape to the privileged vista of the Serralves Park that visitors may enjoy through the restaurant windows. Aside from this large-scale drawing, a selection of drawings, paintings and
sculptures — media which Patricia Dauder frequently works in — will be featured in the Multipurpose Room, allowing the Portuguese public to confront her work for the first time and discover the various aspects of her artistic practice.

Carlos Bunga, a Portuguese artist living and working in Barcelona for several years, has not shown his work in the country since the early 2000s. He now returns to Serralves where he first exhibited in the context of having been given an important award for young artists in 2003. At the entrance hall of the Museum, Bunga has decided to emphasize the space’s verticality (the ceiling is one of the highest in the Museum) and functionality (this zone is both a meeting point and a distribution area from which different facilities are accessed, such as the bookshop, the library, the coffee-shop, the restaurant and the exhibition galleries). Resorting to materials that are as far from noble as they are perishable and common — cardboard and tape —, the artist created a very large structure, which functions like a city square in its invitation to reunion and shared-living, while establishing a two-pronged dialogue with the notion of ruin and an orthogonal and minimalistic approach to architecture that is a direct heir to twentieth-century modernisms.

Patricia Dauder
The Catalan artist, Patricia Dauder, who despite the fact that she also works with film and slide shows is best known for her abstract drawings, which are simultaneously abstract, rigorous and organic. She will combine graphite drawing and painting in her intervention on the restaurant’s walls, which will remain on display for 12 months. In the Multipurpose Room, also located on the museum’s fourth floor, there will be a small exhibition including the artist’s drawings, paintings and a sculpture, which will provide a background context for the museum’s visitors.

Carlos Bunga
This Portuguese artist who has been living in Barcelona for several years, is well known for his large installations in which he uses simple materials (in particular cardboard and sticking tape) to build authentic architectural structures, which although precarious and ephemeral, confront the eminently modernist architecture of Álvaro Siza, with forms that are reminiscent of slums, including popular, fragile and precarious architectural solutions. The artist has recently used his aforementioned favourite materials (cardboard, sticking tape, paints) to produce objects that lie on the border between sculpture and painting. In Serralves, in addition to his intervention which questions the notions of architecture and habitability, he will produce one or more large scale "paintings" for the staircase leading to the Serralves Auditorium. (This space has the second highest ceiling in the museum, after the lobby).

Curator: Ricardo Nicolau
Production: Fundação de Serralves and SONAE

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Inauguration: 07 Dec 2012.

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
Rua Dom João de Castro - 4150 Porto, Portugal
Access: free entrance

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