Spanish raising star Borondo, is back with “Mites terram possident”, a stunning piece painted for the Wall in Art project, promoted by Camonica Valley Cultural District and the institutional Group of Coordination of Unesco Site n.94, in collaborazion with the municipality of Malegno.
Overlooking Piazza Casari in Malegno, Borondo’s mural was created to open for various interpretations and represents a poetic intervention that stems from a profound dialogue between the mural’s surroundings and the artist’s perception of it.
The mural depicts the interior of a church painted in red tones. At its center, where we usually find the alter, Borondo painted a cave (inspired by one near the village) and opens towards a landscape in daylight.
The lower part of the wall was specially treated by the artist so local children could paint and make marks on it. Just like the many graffiti and rock drawings found in the area. The Valle Camonica has been recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site thanks to the approximately 300 thousand rock engravings that can be found throughout the territory.
The mural is rich in local narratives from connections to the town’s ancient history to the motto Mites Terram Possident, written by the founders of Malegno on the old doorways and on the town emblem. Images, signs, symbols and colours, each with their own layers of meaning, interact in the composition, making ‘Mites terram possident’ a work of art able to touch our subconscious and open our minds to different levels of interpretation. The sources of inspiration are many, from murals, to common graffiti, to the surrounding nature.
“the presence of this great variety of signs, symbols and their stratification and the highly expressive pictorial approach transform the work into a painting open to different levels of reading and interpretation.”
Photo credit: Davide Bassanesi and Borondo
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
