Alberto José Costa Borba, known professionally as Bel Borba, is a Brazilian

graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...

, mosaic maker and sculptor, born in 1957. He lives in

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, where he has intervened in the public arena of Brazil with hundreds of works, sculptures,

mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

murals and urban art installations, mostly employing found objects. He spent a month in New York City in the summer of 2012, where he constructed numerous outdoor pieces. A documentary film about his life and work, ''Bel Borba Aqui'', was released in March 2012.

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