Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has finally announced that she will be standing again in the national elections in October. It was the news everyone was expecting and ends speculation about her political plans just days before Saturday’s deadline to submit her candidature.
Street artists Roma, Sam, Nice and Amor have finished painting the second of two dramatic murals that now cover two walls of an old property in Villa Ballester in the Province of Buenos Aires.
Graffiti artists lifted the gloom at Centro Cultural Recoleta over the holiday weekend despite thunder, lightning and storms interrupting their work.
Argentine street artists Triangulo Dorado have been talking to BA Street Art about their a spectacular new mural called ‘The Passion Flower’. The design was inspired by a series of mid-19th century photographs and features a women in a relaxed pose wearing an elaborate period costume with a passion flower above her head. It took the trio two days to complete.
In many cities you might think street artists would get into trouble for painting walls in public places but that’s rarely the case in Buenos Aires, where the city government has put up a plaque recognising the talents of Ever, Jaz, Mart and Poeta and thanking the artists for transforming an outdoor space.
Street artists Lean Frizzera, Martín Ron and Emy Mariani have painted a huge mural depicting Argentine forward Carlos Tevéz wearing the colours of the Argentina national team in Fuerte Apache. Continue reading
Amazing men’s final at Roland Garros yesterday between Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer. Argentina has no shortage of top tennis players too with Juan Martin Del Potro, David Nalbandian, Juan Ignacio Chela and Juan Monaco all in the top 50.
Argentine street artist Lean Frizzera has been forced to cover up his own mural after a local resident complained that the image was ‘pornographic’.
Giant wall of colour painted by Poeta, Roma and Sam on the facade of an old building in the Provincia of Buenos Aires.
Guns, prostitution, rape, drugs, child abuse and domestic violence. These are the everyday horrors going on inside an Argentine slum. Colombian Valeria Aboleda who lives in the ‘villa’ with her partner Carlos told Buenos Aires Street Art how she hopes street art can change the lives of the people living there. Continue reading
The city of Buenos Aires has rightly gained a reputation as one of the street art capitals of the world but it seems not just for the quality of its graffiti but also the quantity. It’s against the law to spray graffiti on public buildings and monuments but that hasn’t stopped one offender from defacing the city’s oldest national monument, la Pirámide de Mayo.
Graffiti on the Pirámide de Mayo
The famous obelisk in the middle of Plaza de Mayo was inaugurated on the May 25th, 1811 to commemorate the first anniversary of the May Revolution. It’s one of BA’s most important landmarks and has also been described as representing the city par excellence similar to the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Colosseum in Rome. It’s the equivalent of spraying Nelson’s Column in London with graffiti. Not something you’d get away with in most cities!
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| The pyramid in front of the Casa Rosada |
Just a few weeks shy of the 201st anniversary of the historic date 25 de Mayo, the plasterwork of the monument was sprayed with the message: “194 pibas presente”, referring to the 194 young revellers who died in the Cromañón nightclub tragedy on 30 December 2004 after a pyrotechnic flare went off and set the roof of the building on fire.
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| Mock 200 pesos note saying “Which bicentenary?” |
Even more graffiti appeared on the streets exactly a year ago coinciding with the bicentenary. There were lavish events to mark the anniversary with the reopening of Teatro Colon and festivities in Plaza de Mayo and Avenida 9 de Julio. Plenty of stencils were painted around Buenos Aires at the time mocking the celebrations and the state of the nation.
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| Stencil featuring a cartonero dragging a sack of cardboard |
As part of the 25 de Mayo festivities, a ceremony was held this morning in Plaza de Mayo with the singing of the national anthem and raising of the Argentine flag and more events are planned this evening.
