ArtPrize 2013's $100,000 "Juried" Grand Prize Comes From Spain

THE GRAND RAPIDS POST
By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk

MICHIGAN---Carlos Bunga, winner of the ArtPrize 2013 $100,000 Juried Grand Prize, uses simple materials such as cardboard and tape. The Portuguese-born artist creates site-specific installations throughout the world in places such as the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, the Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara in Italy and the Miami Art Museum. Bunga traveled from his home in Barcelona, Spain, to become the first international artist to win a top prize in the world's largest art prize. Bunga's installation, "Ecosystem," a site-specific, architectural intervention at SiTE:LAB @ 54 Jefferson, was selected from a field of all 1,524 entries in ArtPrize for the award given Friday evening at the ArtPrize Awards Night.[link]