The Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo (1987), known as Bordalo II, was famous for using the garbage of the streets to create sculptures of stunning animals, with the purpose of alerting people about pollution and all kinds of species that are endangered to extinction. From the street art he developed his practice, evolving to what today is considered as 'trash art'. Passion for painting goes back to childhood, when he spent hours to observe
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The Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo (1987), known as Bordalo II, was famous for using the garbage of the streets to create sculptures of stunning animals, with the purpose of alerting people about pollution and all kinds of species that are endangered to extinction. From the street art he developed his practice, evolving to what today is considered as 'trash art'. Passion for painting goes back to childhood, when he spent hours to observe his grandfather to paint in his atelier and also due to the underworld of the city of Lisbon - strongly influenced at the time by graffiti practices. He began to paint walls with spray on the streets at age 11, with the artistic name Bordalo II, in honor of and highlight the artistic legacy of his grandfather Artur Real Bordalo (1925-2017).In the course of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Lisbon, he discovered the sculpture, the pottery and began to experience the most diverse materials. DEsde 2012, Artur Bordalo created about two hundred animal sculptures using more than 60 tons of reused materials. The once abandoned objects - the plates, the tires, the doors - in the hands of Bordalo II They acquire an aesthetic and communicative function in animal format. The Portuguese artist wants to represent in his work an image of nature, from what destroys them - waste, waste and pollution, clearly expressing a critique of consumerism and offering a sustainability solution. Your facilities "Big Trash Animals", scattered by various places in the world - public or museological - shout on the need for socio-ecological sustainability. On the streets of your hometown, a series of works, "Provocative" and "Train Tracks", Interact with the tissue and the urban furniture, presenting a new critical look at society, its stakeholders and constraints. These small ephemeral interventions seek to be a vehicle for communication and awareness through art, thus addressing various themes, such as pollution, exploitation of women, media sensationalism, connectivity and control, among others.
