Pacific Trash Vortex

The Pacific Trash Vortex is a huge accumulation of floating garbage located in the Pacific Ocean. The accumulation has formed due to the action of the oceanic current with a particular spiral movement, whose center is a relatively stationary region that allows the floating waste to aggregate between them forming a huge "cloud" of trash present on the ocean surface. If since the 60s consumerism and pop art have led us to love mass products, advertising, brands, junk food and all that is superfluous and shiny, now we find ourselves suffocated by the enormous overproduction of unrealistic assets. Unable to change the economic paradigm, brands and multinationals are transformed from dispensers of ephemeral happiness as they were to represent the worst defects of contemporary society.

Screen printing, mixed media on paper, signed and numbered in original. Limited edition in 100 works. Together with the works, the gallery provides the certificate of authenticity.

Pao (Paolo Bordino) is trained and grows in theater, first as a machinist and stage technician for the company of Dario Fo and Franca Rame, then working at the laboratories of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Born in 1977, in the 2000s he approached street art, so as not to leave it any more: urban art interventions, born out of curiosity, became more and more frequent, giving rise to the famous "panettoni" (road dissuaders) depicting penguins, aliens and characters of the common culture, from R2D2 of Star Wars to the Iron Man superhero. Soon, only in 2005, was born Paopao Studio, operational and creative center of Pao and Laura, graphic designer who together with Pao creates and develops projects taking care of the graphic aspect and communication.Several participations with large companies led Pao to expand production and to search for new media: explorations and experiments on materials, perspective research, visual distortions and study of curved geometries have led to a development on canvas and three-dimensional fiberglass supports of its art.

His works are inserted not only in the urban context, becoming an integral part of the urban environment, but also in the mass society that is reflected in some of his works. Nowadays, Pao's works have been exhibited in various art exhibitions, including the Milan Contemporary Art Pavilion, the Milan Triennale, and the Venice Biennale.

This work has no frame so it will be protected with a rigid supports and shipped very quickly in one day from payment. If the shipment is outside EU it is necessary to prepare an export documentation: that can take up to a week of time. We will pay for the shipment if we lose or damage it!

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