Mateo Balaban is a painter and a writer from Croatia
Rain Bordo’s Living Room: A Fever Dream in Pink That Refuses to Apologize 1. The pink walls look like Pepto-Bismol had an emotional breakdown and decided to redecorate. 2. That abstract painting above the fire? It’s like Kandinsky got drunk with a toddler and said, “Let’s make chaos fashionable.” 3. The gold mirror and yellow … More Roast
♥️ There’s a rhythm to this painting that feels like a memory you can’t quite name. It hums, it breathes, it moves — not in a straight line, but in waves that cross and collide like thoughts that refuse to stay still. Each stripe of color feels alive, as if caught mid-dance between order and … More Rain Bordo
🔥💫 Chaos No. 5 is not just a painting — it is an experience of existence itself. It stirs something deeper than the visual; it moves in the realm of the emotional, the spiritual, the profoundly human. Mateo Balaban, known as Rain Bordo, has once again transformed paint into pulse — into something that breathes, … More Chaos No. 5
At first glance, Broken Rainbow radiates like an explosion of emotion — a storm of color, passion, and contradiction. It is a painting that seems to both celebrate and mourn the human spirit at once. The canvas bleeds with vivid reds, deep greens, glowing yellows, and the occasional soothing blue — yet these colors do … More Broken Rainbow
Fragments of a Former Empire: A Review of Rain Bordo’s Latest Work At first glance, Fragments of a Former Empire feels disappointingly static. The composition—warm hues swirling in curved gestures—seems almost decorative, like something designed to complement a minimalist interior rather than challenge the viewer. The lines suggest movement, but not urgency. The palette is … More Fragments of a Former Empire: A Review of Rain Bordo’s Latest Work
♥️ The photograph of Mateo Balaban’s (Rain Bordo’s) painting placed in the middle of an empty, endless road is a deeply poetic gesture — one that resonates profoundly with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Both Balaban and Kerouac explore the idea of the journey not as a means to an end, but as an existential … More I face the horizon, the horizon is my home.
The artwork by Mateo Balaban, known under his artistic name Rain Bordo, radiates a commanding visual intensity — a dialogue between chaos and structure, emotion and order. The painting presents a dense field of color, motion, and texture: a battlefield of layered drips, splashes, and gestural strokes, where yellow lines cut through the composition like … More Sing with me…
Mi, kao ljudi, moramo biti svjesni jedne činjenice; nitko nas neće spasiti. Sami sebe spašavamo. Spašavamo se na sljedeći način: kroz djecu. Dopustite mi da pojasnim; uistinu, ako želimo spasiti naš planet Zemlju, moramo biti u stanju izgraditi ljubav djece prema planetu. Ako nemamo što posaditi, neće ništa rasti u glavama naših mladih. Sve počinje … More ŠTO NAJVIŠE VOLIŠ KOD MASLAČAKA?
Thank You to Rijeka City Library 📚💫 I want to express my deepest gratitude to the Rijeka City Library for welcoming me with open arms and giving me the opportunity to share my art and poetry in such a meaningful way. 🫶 During this special period, I was honored to present my exhibition 🎨 and … More A Thank you to Rijeka City Library
**Title: The Consequences of Unbuilt Personalities: A Reflection on Mateo Balaban’s Insight** **Introduction** In today’s fast-paced, efficiency-driven society, the notion of personal development is often eclipsed by external successes and societal pressures. We are inundated with the idea that success is quantifiable — degrees earned, jobs attained, and wealth accumulated. However, Mateo Balaban’s thought-provoking quote, … More Unbuilt personalities build unbuilt personalities
Rain Bordo 