Beja: Port-end, It is the 5th most beautiful mural of the World, according to Widewalls.
The Widewalls, a British site of Urban Art, elected 55 most beautiful murals and the year of street art works and the 5th most beautiful wall around the World, the Portu-cock, authored by Bordalo II, It is in Beja.
“Murals The Most Beautiful 2017” initiative Widewalls, elected as the 5th most beautiful mural, the Portu-cock, written by Bordallo II and raised in the latest initiative in Beja Street this year 2017, It can be observed on the wall of a housing, next to the Museum Center of Sembrano Street.
Discretion of Widewalls
5. Bordalo II Beja, Portugal. No Number 5 the most beautiful murals 2017, We have the “Trash artist”, Bordalo II. Among animals, these talented individuals created from a variety of materials used and discarded, It is this cock, who is now working on the wall of the city of Beja. Titled Portu-cock, It has the cock plates and metal tubes and many splashes of color, Among other things, once again, proving how this artist is cunning. If you want to check everywhere, Bordallo II left its mark, be sure to visit this link!
The British website says “be no doubt that street artists and their works have gained popularity and continue to do so, mainly thanks to digital and social media. And public works of art, they reach a large audience nowadays always ready to spread the word and give them good visibility where we merecida.É, as Widewalls, we come to say that we are proud to be part of this phenomenon and all its
aspects, through our dedication and respect for these amazing works of art and mental authors behind them”.
Who is Bordallo II? The man's trash is art. (extracts from a text of the News Magazine).
Turns waste into art, spreading plants with large animals on the walls of cities. There is a new Portuguese artist in the mouth, and in streets of the world.It's late October and there are bumpers of cars dented, container waste parties, computer keyboards unutilized, Empty bicycle tires. All pile in the yard the number 48 the Xabregas Street, in the Lisbon neighborhood of Blessed, out of the loop of the capital's galleries.
In the following days, all that waste would be turned into animal figures - a great, other means, other small -, to compose a kind of zoo made of debris. A 4 November inaugurate, that same warehouse, the first exhibition of street artist Bordallo II, named Attero, Latin noun for "waste". Until the middle of this week the number of visitors already in cifrava-eight thousand. The doors remain open until next Sunday, 26 November, in what seems to have become one of the cultural events of the year.
What Bordallo has II? For now, It has visual impact. Some of his creations spanning several stories high - and most did today was a swallow in Lodz, in Poland, mix of painting and sculpture installed "on the facade of a building with three floors, but with such high ceilings, which in fact could well be four or five ».
The Bordalo II path begins to draw in childhood. Born Arthur Bordallo in 1987, in Lisbon, the grandfather had a primary figure to also turn it into an artist. real Bordalo, who was born in 1925 and died in June this year, painted tens of oils and watercolors of urban landscapes of Lisbon.
Has, moreover, his work represented in various museums of the country and in private collections in France, Italy, Japan, United States and Germany. The name of the grandson chose to identify, Bordalo II, It is a tribute to family roots plastic. Partly because they shared the same first name: Artur.
In 2012, So, He started with the first serious projects. It was in two factories that had closed doors in Cabo Ruivo, them built the first animals that were photographed and spreading the net.
First, came out small items, little more than notes on urban art listings. But from 2015 They began to repair it seriously. A blog called Art Colossal, then the sites Bored Panda and High Fructose They congregated million views for what he was doing. «E, thereafter, It was an avalanche. "
Most of the work happens Bordallo II in urban art festivals, custom built facilities. First of all, It was in the Azores, the Walk and Talk, but starting with 2015 began to be called up to the major events in the world - as the Noir Norway or Life is Beautiful em Las Vegas. Rained orders from Poland, Italy, a year after their animals were raised on walls of places like Mexico City and Tahiti, Miami ou Aruba.
In this picture gallery is a rabbit installed in June in Vila Nova de Gaia, Gaia festival for the first edition of All One World. It is called Half Rabbitt, because half is covered with ink and the other shows the original materials, without any cover. It is one of 88 pieces that has exposed in the streets of the world.
where to see (for now) Bordallo II of works in Portugal
- Bragança: Wild Boar (2016); Gineta (2016) and Urban Camouflage (2014) Avenue John of the Cross
- Vila Nova de Gaia: Half Rabit (2017) Rua Guilherme Gomes Fernandes
- Estarreja: Guarda Rios (2015) Municipal Pavilion Estarreja
- Viseu: Iberian lynx (2016) Carmo 81
- Agueda: Pisco (2017) Street 5 October
- Covilhã: Owl Eyes (2014) Largo Lady of the Rosary
- Fundão: Wolf (2016) Railway Station
- Idanha-a-Nova: Trash Globe (2016) Boom Festival
- Alcains: Tap (2016) Sanches Semedo street
- Salvaterra de Magos: Lutra Lutra (2017) Ecofestival CERAS
- Leiria: Hal Heron's; Family (2017) Taking Street
- Loures: egret (2014) Pero Escobar Street
- Lisbon: Pi G (2016) Rio Douro Street; Bee (2016) LX Factory; Dove White Dove(2016) Católica Business School; Racoon (2015) Belem Cultural Center; Fish d'Alcantara (2015) and Gecko (2015) Avenida de Ceuta; Fox (2017) Of. 24 July; Chimpanzee (2017) and just (2017) Xabregas Street
- Costa de Caparica: Dust (2016) Monitoring Center for Environmental Interpretation
- Montijo: Trash Head Donkey (2017) Avenida de Pescadores
- Beja: PORT-End (2017) Museum Center of Sembrano Street
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
