This Tuesday, Portuguese artist Bordalo II placed a 6.5 meter giant panda made from waste in the former Iec Long panchão factory in Macau. The work was carried out using waste collected on site and from Portuguese rubbish bins. The goal is to draw attention to waste production, which remains dangerously high, and the resulting destruction of the planet.
The new work was born from crates, helmets, various types of hoses and tubes, bumpers, road dividers, tires and fishing nets and is part of the “Big Trash Animals” series, in which only giant animals are produced from solid waste. this is the artist’s first work installed in the former Portuguese territory of Macau.
The message of the author and printed in this series is known. “When we depict animals with something that destroys them, with something that destroys nature, I think it goes beyond caring for the environment, it should also be caring for ourselves, because we are animals too, so perhaps what destroys nature, animals and their habitats will destroy us,” the artist said at a meeting with journalists in the Chinese city.
Bordalo II, the creative name of Arthur Bordalo, was one of the artists invited to the annual exhibition “Meeting in Macau – an arts and culture festival between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.” In addition to the giant panda, four other works based on the same concept will be exhibited in Macau: three paintings – a panda, a lynx and a pangolin – at the Casas da Taipa exhibition gallery, and a mural of two spoonbills in blackface at the old Lai Chi Wun shipyards.
Author: Vanessa Fidalgo
Source: CM Jornal
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