He then chose the artist name Bordalo II as a tribute to his grandfather Artur Real Bordalo (1925-2017) in order to honour him and highlight his artistic legacy. Bordalo II creates sculptures from various discarded objects he can find around the city like scrap, old tires, car carcasses, appliances, plastic stuff and aluminium cans…
Q. What did real Bordalo do as a kid?
Q. What kind of art does Artur Bordalo do?
Artur Bordalo, also known as Bordalo II (pronounced Bordalo Segundo), was born in 1987 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is famous for using street garbage to create stunning animals sculptures so as to warn people about pollution and all types of endangered species. His works are considered as « trash art ».
Q. What kind of objects does Bordalo II use?
Bordalo II creates sculptures from various discarded objects he can find around the city like scrap, old tires, car carcasses, appliances, plastic stuff and aluminium cans… His installations are focused on questioning the materialistic and consumerist society we live in.
Q. What does a bordure on a shield mean?
In heraldry, a bordure is a band of contrasting tincture forming a border around the edge of a shield, traditionally one-sixth as wide as the shield itself. It is sometimes reckoned as an ordinary and sometimes as a subordinary.
The bordure has no diminutive, though a bordure diminished is occasionally employed – as in ‘Or; a diminished bordure vert; on a chief indented azure, two fleurs de lys or’ (127th Field Artillery, US).
Q. How did Bordalo II come up with his name?
His youth took place between the hours spent in the studio of his grandfather Real Bordalo, who had an incessant passion for watercolors 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.
