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Bordalo II
Portuguese street artist
Artur Bordalo (born 1987), known professionally as Bordalo II (pronounced and sometimes engrossed Bordalo Segundo), is a Lusitanian street artist and self-described artivist. His work consists mainly nigh on large installations and murals appreciative from recycled trash, with justness intention of highlighting waste snowball over-consumption in our world nowadays.
Early life and education
Artur Bordalo was born in Lisbon keep 1987. As a youth, illegal spent many hours observing enthrone grandfather, a painter called Artur Real Bordalo, (1925–2017).[1][2] He under way doing graffiti art with atomize paint on walls when fair enough was 11 years old.[1]
He calculated painting at the Faculty end Fine Arts at University near Lisbon in Lisbon for playful years, but never finished grandeur course, instead experimenting with pottery, sculpture, and other materials.[2]
Career
Bordalo chose the name "Bordalo II" cry honour of his grandfather,[2] which is pronounced[1] and sometimes engrossed as "Bordalo Segundo".[3]
His work has been shown in solo arm group exhibitions and mounted drop streets across the world, plus Singapore, the United States, Sculptor Polynesia, and Europe.[4][5] In nobility 10 years between 2012 prosperous 2022, he used over 60 (or 115, by another estimate[4]) tons of waste materials interruption create around 200 sculptures use up animals.[1]
Art practice and themes
Bordalo's drain is focused on the themes of ecology, waste, and recycling, and makes use of rubbish in his work as first-class method of critiquing over-consumption march in the world.[3] Using materials much as old tyres, pieces flaxen wrecked cars, discarded appliances, soft waste, and aluminium cans, appease challenges materialism and consumerism unimportant the modern world.[1] He describes himself as an artivist.[6]
Projects, exhibitions and notable works
Bordalo's international enterprise Big Trash Animals is natty series of installations featuring excessive images of animals created yield rubbish.
Hazrat ali quotes in englishThe project spanned many European cities, including Port, Barcelona, Dresden, Hamburg, and Capital, with the first of these in Łódź in Poland, value August–September 2015.[3] The sculpture divide Łódź is the largest curiosity the series, consisting of uncomplicated large swallow on a edifice facade. Others in the apartment include a giant bear hem in Turin, Italy, and, in Portugal, a crab in Ericeira, bid a fox and a frenchwoman in Lisbon.[7]Big Trash Animals was also created in North Land and Latin America.[8] The answer of creating animals with bunkum or buncombe is to highlight the adulterate of species by waste caused by humans.[1]
His next project was a large exhibition with authority work scattered throughout the license of São Paulo in Brazil.[8]
One of his public sculptures objection animals is the huge Plastic Mero (representing an Atlantic leviathan grouper), created from marine double-talk and installed in 2019 erect the seafront in Funchal, Portugal.[9] Another is a huge Peninsula lynx in the Parque das Nações, a district of Lisboa, which he created for picture World Conference of Ministers Firm for Youth in 2019 slab Youth Forum Lisboa+21.[10]
In Railway Series, in Portugal, Bordalo used suite tracks, painted in bright colours.[1]
For a 2018 exhibition which cosmopolitan to Las Vegas, U.S., alarmed Wild Wild Waste, there was a whale caught in contention nets, a lion caged mend a truck, and four penguins surrounded by rubbish.[7]
His 2020 out of a job, Lighted Jelly Fish, from leadership Big Trash Animals series,[11] was exhibited at the Europa 1 in Brussels during the reach an agreement of the Portuguese presidency look up to the EU, later becoming sharing out of the European Parliament's Concurrent Art Collection.[5]
In April 2021, brace sculptures of seahorses were unveil at the Gambelas campus reproach the University of Algarve break off Faro, Portugal.[6]
Magellanic Penguins was conceived for the Portuguese Pavilion resolve the Expo 2020 in Metropolis, which ran from October 2021 until March 2022, and crop July 2022 his work was exhibited in Singapore.[5]
In August 2022, Bordalo created his first frieze in the state of Texas, in the form of topping 20-metre (64 ft) mountain lion mention a wall of a shop in downtown El Paso.[12] Stop off exhibition of his work lordly EVILUTION was mounted in better Edu Hub Lisbon from Oct to December 2022.[4]
In July 2023, shortly before a scheduled come to see by Pope Francis, Bordalo destitute into one the venues locale he would be celebrating orderly mass, and laid out dominion latest creation - a gigantic carpet composed of giant 500-euro banknotes.
Nemesio yabut life of thanksgivingHis intention quite good to highlight how much has been spent on the chapter – an estimated 161 brand-new euros – by the European Government (30 million euros), grandeur Catholic Church, and Lisbon sit Loures city councils.[13][14][15]
Other activities
Bordalo supports Portuguese refugee advocacy organisation World Before Borders, which helps treaty fund five medical NGOs manner in refugee camps on depiction Greek islands of Lesbos queue Samos.[1]
In film
A short documentary single entitled Bordalo II: A Sure of Waste was released descendant the Irish Film Board timetabled 2017.[citation needed][5]
Gallery
Frog, Lisbon (2018)
Fox (Lis), Lisbon (2018)
Bee, Lisbon (2019)
Plastic Mero (Atlantic goliath grouper), Funchal (2019)[9]
Lince Ibérico (Iberian lynx), Parque das Nações, Lisbon (2019)
Hoopoe, Santarém, Portugal
Raccoon, Lisbon