Imagem de Urgência

Urgency mages

My commentary

This painting has a story: I was approached by a director of a foreign company wanting to buy it to be presented to its president, who, once replaced, left Brazil.

I proposed to him that, instead, I went to the factory and there I would make some objects with material and tools from the place. So it was done and from the result 4 pieces in wood and steel, one was chosen for the president's pleasure.

After days I met the wife of that director who recognized me and told me, on the sly, with the commitment of not spreading, that her husband had told her that he would buy the blue painting that he liked so much.  And that she had ordered to a upholsterer to reform her armchairs and sofa in shades of blue to match. That was amazing!
The painting had been based on the reflections of curious passers-by on the glass of a bench shattered by a gust of machine gun. I ran to the studio and retouched the painting removing shrapnel and bullet holes.

_{Gabriel Borba, 2015}

PS:

The figure which is repeated here, and in other paintings, framing their top or their bottom, is the portrait of Dr. Armando Marcondes Machado Junior, then president of the Association of State Attorneys of São Paulo, placed there, as watching my deeds, by the admiration of this man of coherent and courageous positions.

Together we went through a remarkable adventure, funny tonowaday, reported by Dr. Armando, fondly called Armandinho, in an interview he gave to the São Paulo State Prosecutors Union Newspaper in 1998, whose excerpt I reply here:

"JS - How did the Association, which had no resources, manage to carry out such an event? (Refers to the the Congress for Public Advocacy, 1969)

Armando - Professor Hely Lopes Meirelles, then Secretary of Justice, contributed to the viability of this first Congress. I got sponsorship for the posters and the cocktail. The poster, incredible as it may seem, was the one that gave me the most headache. It would be printed free of charge at the graphics office of the Secretary of Tourism, which rejected the first work of the graphic artist we hired, Gabriel Borba Filho, because they understood that the poster had communist connotations. Borba accepted it back and made another one, which was promptly accepted".

_{Gabriel Borba,2020}