Artur Bordalo born in Lisbon, 1987, uses the artist name Bordalo II, which he chose as a tribute to his grandfather, the painter Real Bordalo, in order to promote a continuity and reinvention of his artistic legacy.
His youth took place between the hours spent in the studio of his grandfather, who had a lasting passion for watercolours and oils and portrayed landscapes and typical scenes of the city, and the adventures around illegal graffiti in the underworld of the city of Lisbon.
The public space would become the chosen stage for his explorations of colour and scale and the platform where he gradually transformed his habits and channelled his experiences in the construction and development of his artistic work, which is currently focused on questioning the materialistic and greedy society of which he is also part.
The excessive production and consumption of stuff, which results in the continuous production of “garbage” and consequently in the destruction of the planet, are the central themes of his production. This “garbage” assumes itself as the unusual and unique raw material that Bordalo uses in the construction of small and large scale pieces that he has spread around the world and that, above all, intend to be the vehicle of a universal manifesto.
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