Jorge Rafael Videla was head of the military junta and rose to power in Argentina on 24th March 1976 after president Isabel Martinez de Perón, the third wife of Juan Domingo Perón, was deposed. Political propaganda and stencils featuring Videla and referencing the Argentine dictatorship can be found all over Buenos Aires. All photos by Buenos Aires Street Art Continue reading
Oz Montania has painted a great new piece depicting parliamentary politicians as dirty pigs after Paraguay president Fernando Lugo was removed from office on Friday.
This fantastic photo of Buenos Aires graffiti by Cof, Mab and NM with some construction workers on their lunch break was taken by photographer Dan Gindling on his recent trip to Argentina. The photograph has has been entered in the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2012.
Nerf painted this school bus with his brilliant 3-D shapes for a project with Pura Vida TV a couple of years ago. BA Street Art managed to track it down.
The stunning mural of Carlos Tevéz in Fuerte Apache towers over a tiny football pitch in Buenos Aires where youngsters aspire to become the World Cup stars of the future. Buenos Aires Street Art was granted special access to take photographs inside Fuerte Apache, regarded as one of the most dangerous places in the world.
Mario Calvo has painted a series of new murals of Yoda from Star Wars in Buenos Aires over the last couple of weeks in the barrio of Palermo where he lives. He told BA Street Art why he likes to paint the Jedi Master.
A mural painted by Blu in Buenos Aires has recently been covered over during the construction of new apartment blocks in Villa Urquiza.
New intervention by Chilean artist Felipe Smides in Villa Urquiza painted last weekend . The anti-comsumerist craze is known as culture jamming whereby advertising billboards are altered to change their meaning. With this intervention, Felipe has changed the poster that champions the benefits of a pain killing drug with the message ‘Set fire to your slavery’ (‘Incendia tu esclavatud’) with two giant matches.
Cof and Animalito Land painted a cool new mural in Villa Urquiza at the weekend featuring two characters wearing scarves huddling around a fire. With temperatures as low as three degrees in the Capital Federal last week and winter in Argentina officially starting on the June 21, the pair have certainly warmed up our week. Continue reading
New mural of E.T. in Buenos Aires by Argentine street artist Mario Calvo. It coincides with the 30th anniversary of the classic Steven Spielberg movie which came out on 11 June 1982.
Street artists B2 and Ice have been painting an underwater scene at the urban art event Ciudad Emergente at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. It’s called ‘Fundo del Mar’ (Bottom of the Sea) and features tropical fish, a shark, a turtle, a diver, a submarine and a swimming elephant by Ice.
Triangulo Dorado have painted a stunning new mural in Villa Ortuzar featuring some autumn colours and a quotation by Indian yogi and guru Paramahansa Yogananda.
