Bordalo II

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Bordalo II
Bordalo II in Vilvoorde, Belgium (2019)
Born
Artur Bordalo

1987 (age 36–37)
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
Websitewww.bordaloii.com

Artur Bordalo (born 1987), known professionally as Bordalo II (pronounced and sometimes written Bordalo Segundo), is a Portuguese

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Early life and education

Artur Bordalo was born in

graffiti art with spray paint on walls when he was 11 years old.[1]

He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at University of Lisbon in Lisbon for eight years, but never finished the course, instead experimenting with ceramics, sculpture, and other materials.[2]

Career

In Coimbra, Portugal
In Loures, Portugal

Bordalo chose the name "Bordalo II" in honour of his grandfather,[2] which is pronounced[1] and sometimes written as "Bordalo Segundo".[3]

His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions and mounted in streets across the world, including Singapore, the United States, French Polynesia, and Europe.[4][5] In the 10 years between 2012 and 2022, he used over 60 (or 115, by another estimate[4]) tons of waste materials to create around 200 sculptures of animals.[1]

Art practice and themes

Bordalo's work is focused on the themes of

artivist.[6]

Projects, exhibitions and notable works

Bordalo's international project Big Trash Animals is a series of

facade. Others in the series include a giant bear in Turin, Italy, and, in Portugal, a crab in Ericeira, and a fox and a frog in Lisbon.[7] Big Trash Animals was also created in North America and Latin America.[8] The idea of creating animals with trash is to highlight the destruction of species by waste caused by humans.[1]

His next project was a large exhibition with his work scattered throughout the city of São Paulo in Brazil.[8]

One of his

public sculptures of animals is the huge Plastic Mero (representing an Atlantic goliath grouper), created from marine debris and installed in 2019 on the seafront in Funchal, Portugal.[9] Another is a huge Iberian lynx in the Parque das Nações, a district of Lisbon, which he created for the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth in 2019 and Youth Forum Lisboa+21.[10]

In Railway Series, in Portugal, Bordalo used

train tracks, painted in bright colours.[1]

For a 2018 exhibition which travelled to Las Vegas, U.S., called Wild Wild Waste, there was a whale caught in fishing nets, a lion caged in a truck, and four penguins surrounded by rubbish.[7]

His 2020 work, Lighted Jelly Fish, from the Big Trash Animals series,

EU, later becoming part of the European Parliament's Contemporary Art Collection.[5]

In April 2021, two sculptures of seahorses were unveiled at the Gambelas campus of the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal.[6]

Magellanic Penguins was created for the Portuguese Pavilion in the Expo 2020 in Dubai, which ran from October 2021 until March 2022, and in July 2022 his work was exhibited in Singapore.[5]

In August 2022, Bordalo created his first mural in the state of

El Paso.[12]
An exhibition of his work titled EVILUTION was mounted in at Edu Hub Lisbon from October to December 2022.[4]

In July 2023, shortly before a scheduled visit by

Portuguese Government (30 million euros), the Catholic Church, and Lisbon and Loures city councils.[13][14][15]

Other activities

Bordalo supports Portuguese refugee advocacy organisation Humans Before Borders, which helps to fund five medical

NGOs working in refugee camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos.[1]

In film

A short

Irish Film Board in 2017.[16][5]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Bordalo II" (video (1 min.) + text). Street Art Bio. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "About". Bordaloii. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "BORDALO II". Strona główna. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Bordalo II: The artist behind EVILUTION". Martinhal Residences. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d "Bordalo II". IP: Why Not. 24 October 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Inauguration of the sculptures by Artist Bordalo II". University of Algarve. 8 April 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Bordalo II". Feed. Jerónimo Martins World Magazine. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2023. #6, "Waste" Edition - Dec. 2018
  8. ^ a b "Bordalo II instala em Vimioso dois murais dedicados ao burro de Miranda". SAPO (in Portuguese). 16 February 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  9. ^ "'Plastic Mero'". Atlas Obscura. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  10. ^ Ahmmed, Roman (19 July 2021). "A huge cat sculpture at Park of Nations in Lisbon, Portugal". Local Guides Connect. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Bordalo II". Bordaloii. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  12. ^ Chavez, Brianna (4 August 2022). "World-renowned artist to build mural with trash downtown". KVIA. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  13. ^ "Portuguese artist rolls out banknote carpet to slam state spending on Pope Francis visit". ABC News (Australia). 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  14. ^ "India-Japan script an expanding partnership for a shared future". The Economic Times. 26 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  15. ^ Demony, Catarina (28 July 2023). "Portuguese artist rolls out banknote carpet to slam pope's visit costs". Reuters. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
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  17. ^ "'Plastic Mero'". Atlas Obscura. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2023.

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