If you are unfamiliar with Borondo's work, then you definitely have some catching up to do in 2015. The Spain-born street artist has a background in fine art studies and it shows in the expressionist murals that he paints on walls around the world. We last caught up with the artist in Las Vegas during the Life Is Beautiful Festival where he added an installation and dope mural to the desert event.
Since then, Gonzalo Borondo has stayed busy, and the talented painter will open a solo show at a RexRomae Gallery pop-up in London on Feb. 5 titled "Animal," curated by Rom Levy of RexRomae and Charlotte Dutoit of JustKids.
The gallery calls the solo show Borondo's "most ambitious display to date," and writes that he "aims to explore the conflict between our innate animal instincts and our present lives, which are coated with the dependence of technology and our fear for the unknown." Street Art News recently shared a trailer for the show, which we would embed here were it not for the nudity. "Animal" will feature eight thematic spaces with video installations and painting animations made in collaboration with Carmen Maín, and sculptures created in collaboration with Edoardo Tresoldi, Despina Charitonidi.
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"The biggest part of my work [is to] try to reflect our dramatic nature," says Borondo. "I use the universal body-language to show the issues of the human condition." The show runs through Feb. 28 at the London Newcastle Project Space in Shoreditch. For more info, head to the RexRomae exhibition page.
UPDATE: Check out more exclusive photos from the upcoming show and from Borondo's studio below, courtesy of RexRomae.
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[via Street Art News]
