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"Narcissus" in East London
www.streetartnews.net/2014/02/borondo-narcissus-new-mural-east-london.html

He is fast becoming one of my favourites, he has strong ideas

From StreetArtNews:
Borondo is still busy in UK where he just finished scratching this new piece in the area of Shoreditch in East London. Working with his signature "Scratching" technique, the Spanish street artist used a penny to create this stunning series of portraits
www.streetartnews.net/2014/02/borondo-new-street-piece-east-london-uk.html

New work in Shoreditch

Mint stored flat
Hand finished edition of 35

£150

As my earlier for sale thread unfortunately I'm selling some of my prints to clear some overspend on art.

"El Peso De La Corona" is an edition of 35, it measures 50 x 70 cm, one layer hand-pulled screen-print on Super Fancy Cream paper. Each one was individually hand-painted with extra colours by Borondo. The print is signed and numbered #/35. Its in mint condition and I am willing to post anywhere in the world.

Looking for £100 plus postage. Cheers cnh.

Paid, this is now SOLD. Thanks for all the pm's.

where abouts is that?

I know its just a wall, but I'm sure mickeydread will know!

Dangle!!! That made me laugh!! Little things ....

Gonzalo Borondo: let’s bring an end to ‘graffiti-tourism’

March 23rd, 2014 | by Katie Marston

Street art in Hackney’s concrete “safari” is a worldwide attraction, but artist Gonzalo Borondo tells Katie Marston he wants to move the borough away from ‘graffiti-tourism’.

It is a sunny day in the south of Hackney and the hordes of tourists blocking the street corner are gasping in awe at what an older generation might call ‘graffiti’. Would-be Banksys feed off this fascination, and while hipsters pay homage, artists are usually the last to critique it.

Yet Gonzalo Borondo, one of Hackney’s many street-artists-in-residence, has slammed them as “safaris”. While he raves about the importance of street art, he says tours are “not natural. Artists do it to become famous.”

Inside a disused pub on the edge of Victoria Park, Gonzalo attentively rolls a cigarette as he explains how he came to be here in his studio. Huge pieces are propped up against the walls, painted on anything but canvas.

“London is the place in Europe where things are happening,” he says. “There is too much repression in Madrid.

“For me the streets are the best gallery in the world but you can’t live with that. Indoors it’s cold – there are people who never enter a gallery. In the street the relationship and the context is different.”

He leans over, tiny Moleskine notebook in hand. A face is sketched inside. “I love that piece.” He explains that the real-life version is on the side of Regent’s Canal. “It’s a little bit special. When it’s quiet, you can see a face perfectly in the water. London is full of reflections and water. People need to adapt what they do to where they are – I’m not a factory.

“I want a dialogue with the street and the city. I don’t like advertisements and the big cities where it’s full of advertisements. We should respect the ambiance because that reflects the lives of the people.”

Learning from the Spanish Masters

Gonzalo began experimenting with graffiti in Madrid aged 13. “I studied oil paintings with a master – an old guy who lived in his space really, someone who was really poor but knew so much about art. So I went and drank and learnt.

“When you take the things you’ve learnt from old Spanish Masters like Goya and put that in the public space – when it’s not only aesthetic but with something behind it – that’s beautiful.”

As the son of a psychologist and a restorator, his influences – adaptation to the environment and fascination with people – leap out.

He explains why his trademark focus is human figures. “With the figure you can say a lot with very few elements.” He holds his arms crossed, hands clenched. “It changes everything.”

hackneypost.co.uk/2014/03/23/interview-gonzalo-borondo-street-art/

We still have one piece available in www.store1amsf.com/category_s/138.htm?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=138&show=240&page=1 from A Major Minority

info.borondo@gmail.com

Thanks mate.