Bordalo ll "DECOMPOSED"

His art was called "ecological". Its unique style. Artur Bordalo, better known as Bordalo II, is the Portuguese artist who uses waste and recycled materials to shape his fantastic creatures: giant animals, fish, birds and insects. Recycling and assembling tires, damaged bumpers, broken bicycles, car pieces and other waste material, Bordalo II brought its "Big Trash Animal" to walls around the world, from Norway to Azerbaijan, from the United States to Poland . From Square 23, in its first staff in Italy, Bordalo II reduces the size of its "Big Trash Animal" by keeping the style and message unchanged, but also using other recovery materials that allow such a level of detail impossible to reach on surface of a wall. "Decomposed" is a criticism of the consumer society: works depict nature (animals, in this case) through the materials responsible for its own destruction. photos by Livio Ninni