A famous contemporary plastic artist, whose artworks are representing natural animals made with trash.

3. BORDALO II

5. • He attended the Painting course at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon for
eight years, without ever having completed it, but says that these years
allowed him to discover sculpture, ceramics, and to experiment with a
variety of materials that have distanced him from painting, which had taken
him there in the first place.
• 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 channeled 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.

6. • 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.

7. Bordalo’s work
around the World
• Brazil
• Paris
• Portugal

9. Big Trash Animals

10. NEUTRAL
• The Big Trash Animals series
revolves around the
representation of animals on a
large scale, built almost exclusively
with garbage (as Bordalo says, the
same material that kills them),
aiming to provoke a different look
at our consumerist habits.

11. HALF-SEA TURTLE
• The goal is to generate an
emotional relationship between
these large animals and those who
observe them, seeking to promote
the questioning of our acts and
habits and, who knows, their
subsequent transformation and
evolution. Regarding the choice of
the animals represented, Bordalo’s
choice is often to go for native
species, species in danger, in
extinction or even extinct.

12. • The production process of each
work involves collecting
material, cutting and adapting
the collected material,
assembling, fixing and painting
(if that is the case). “Garbage” is
the raw material which is used
predominantly, in particular
“garbage” resulting from high
density plastics that have
already ceased to serve the
purpose for which they were
initially intended.

13. • The Big Trash Animals series started
with the Neutral subseries. Bordalo
then went on to explore the possibility
of greater disclosure of the raw
materials used (mostly reused plastic)
by dispensing with the use of paint in
part of the work, with the Half Half
subseries, and concluding with an
option for full disclosure of this same
raw material, in the Plastic subseries.

14. • There are currently 195 Big
Trash Animals, spread all over
the world. Having already
travelled to several countries,
the raw material collection
process gave Bordalo the
privilege of having a unique look
at each city and its waste
collection and treatment habits.

15. FLOATING

16. PLASTICS
Iberian Lynx
Lisboa
+21 in Lisbon,
Portugal, 2019

17. More info

19. Portuguese Interview