BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Just as we started 2018 we had the fortune to spend one week in the enchanting city of Lisbon, Portugal as ambassadors for Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art (UN). Lisbon is home to some great Street Art and graffiti and some striking figures on the international scene like Vhils and Bordalo II and we spent some hair raising and fun rides with the latter in his small car as he flew around corners and trash flew around in the back seat.
Of course there was trash in the back seat! Bordalo II has created a spectacular practice of creating street works from it that shock passersby with his ingenuity – while raising our collective consciousness about our responsibility to the earth.
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
So we thought you may like to see a collection of them together today. While combing the narrow, winding and steep streets of Lisbon we made many artistic discoveries, large and small, of the prolific and magnificent urban art expressions throughout the port town.
A number of deliciously trashy sculptures of Bordallo II had just appeared all over the city in the previous months to highlight his solo exhibition that took place in November. Others have been installed on the streets for a while and one in particular was specifically made the eve of Christmas…not so much as a celebration but as a commentary on the inordinate waste that follows, once the food is eaten, the libations had and the presents opened.
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Now BSA is heading to Tahiti to participate on the 5th anniversary of ONO’U Tahiti and we’ll have the pleasure of spending a few days with Bordalo II again! Stay tuned to see what trouble he and Pixel can get into.
We published two in-depth Lisbon accounts from that visit trip HERE and HERE.
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Lisbon, Portugal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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