Monday, July 21, 2014
Colorful Street Art on the Train Tracks of Portugal by Artur Bordalo
Colossal: If the artwork is on train tracks, is it still called street art? Rail art? Either way, we’re loving this series by Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo in which he cleverly converts the horizontal lines of train tracks into a canvas. The series, which have been popping up on railways throughout Portugal since early this year, often use bright, neon colors which create a nice contrast between the dull gray rocks and tracks.
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Usually “Rail Art” appears as tags on train cars, graffiti written under bridges, and messages scrawled across street signs. That of Artur Bordalo however is an innovative form of art that brings the scene together using the tracks themselves, in order to make bold statements about the world in rather simplistic ways. In more than one of his works, Bordalo utilizes the metal beams to represent arms, one to depict two people shaking hands and the other- maybe only in my mind- as a symbol of breaking out of the corruption that money and greed seemingly hold over the minds of humanity. He uses bright colors to offset the dullness of the tracks, but his art is only temporary; the next time there is a storm or the rocks around the track move or the train wears off the paint, the full impact of the artwork is gone.
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