Tag: Borondo
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“Sacrum Fieri” by Borondo in Ordes, Spain
Last September Spanish Artist Borondo painted a Mural entitled “Sacrum Fieri” on a wall in the high school ‘IES Maruxa Mallo’ of Ordes (Spain), curated by Desordes Crativas. About the Mural Sacrifice, a word tainted by our contemporary negative morality, according to which “to make a sacrifice” is to voluntarily deprive oneself of something, “to…
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BORONDO “Show” x Art(Re)Public 2016
“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.” Guy Debord, The society of the spectacle (1973) Spanish artist Gonzalo Borondo, better known as juyst Borondo, was recently in the US invited to take part of the Art(Re)Public mural project organised in Jacksonville, Florida. Titled “Show” and based on the French philosopher Guy Debord’s…
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Borondo ‘Saint Sophia Cathedral’ in Kiev, Ukraine
One of my favourite young painters and muralists, Gonzalo Borondo from Spain, was recently in Ukraine where he painted this wonderful interpretation of Saint Sophia’s cathedral for the Mural Social Club festival in Kiev. Saint Sophia’s cathedral, built in the 11th century, is one of the city’s best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on…
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Borondo “Mirage” x St+Art India in New Delhi
Here the work of Spanish artist Gonzalo Borondo who is currently in India taking part of this year’s St+Art India for which he painted this amazing expressionistic piece. The new piece is part of WIP – The Street Art Show – , a group show that counts with the participation of local and international artists like…
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Borondo ‘Fer Lenya’ x Openwalls Conference in Barcelona
Borondo was one of the artists invited to this year’s Openwalls Conference that took place last week in Barcelona. Fer Lenya, as the mural was titled, is a term used when a castell falls apart. A castell (castle in Catalan) is basically a human tower built traditionally in festivals at many locations within Catalonia. The castell is built…
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Recap: UpNorth Festival in Sulitjelma, Norway
A couple of weeks ago Sulitjelma, a small village in the municipality of Fauske in Norway, was witness of the UpNorth festival, one of the biggest street art events in Northern Norway in the last couple of years. In the late 1800s Sulitjelma was one of the biggest mining communities in Norway. At its top…
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Borondo “Animal” New solo show at RexRomae gallery in London
Spanish artist Gonzalo Borondo, also known as just Borondo, will be opening next Thursday “Animal” his most ambitious solo show to date at Rex Romae gallery in London. Borondo is renowned for his very particular style characterized by an unusual mix of genres; classic portraiture and street art describes his work as follows: “The biggest part of my work [is…
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Borondo x Life Is Beautiful Festival 2014 In Las Vegas
After a wonderful participation at this years Nuit Blanche event in Paris a couple of weeks ago, Borondo is now in Las Vegas invited by JustKids where he just finished this new wall for the second edition of Life Is Beautiful Festival. Not afraid of challenges, Borondo painted this extraordinary anamorphic image of a man in a robe which…
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Borondo “Les Trois Ages” x Nuit Blanche Paris
Spanish Borondo is now in Paris invited to take part of this years Nuit Blanche Paris for which he painted this wonderful mural titled “Les Trois Ages” (The Three Generations). The mural depicts three figures representing three different stages in life, a standing (and undefined) figure in the back covers the mouth of a sitting man at the same time…
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ARTURb 2014: Borondo Murals and Installations
After his first mural for the ARTURb project about a week ago (here), Borondo has continued working on new installations (both collaborative and not) and this new large-scale mural in Lagos featuring the image of a woman facing the viewer and giving her back to four other adults painted in grey tones in order to…
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