K&B en America del Sur: Buenos Aires Street Art

Buenos Aires Street Art has a very vivid scene. It's known internationally and has deveopped only in late 90's. The huge increase in graffiti and Street Art was triggered by the political chaos that followed the economic crisis in 2001.

Today we can find here huge variety of tags, to sticker art and posters. The last ones interested me the most.

They call themselves Street Artists or Wall Painters. Together with Matt we went to Colegiales to see some interesting paints.

Nowadays, when Banksy's work is being auctioned, we have different perceive of Street Arts. Take a look:

Rats are one of favourites motives of street artists. They are symbol of the protest.

The author of this one works for Cartoon Network and is known fashion stylist. His paints are inspired by cartoons.

really an art?

The one below is created by a famous italian street artist called Blu. Check his youtube movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uuGaqLT-gO4

First graffiti in Buenos Aires appeared in 1994 which is much later than in Europe or USA. Political regime didn't make it any easier. Blu was one of the first artist. In the paint below we see a baby. It's an alegory of the country under military dictatorship between 1976-1982. The interpretation was very controversial and Blu never took part in this discussion.

Some of interpetations say that the child got a 'dictatorship pill' into his mounth and it makes him sick. However, Blu leaves it open.

Based on stop motion technique he created a 6 mins movie which took him a round year.

This paint is consider as one of most important voices against crisis and showing the current political moods. In 2001 due to market crash, 1 peso equals to 1 dollar went down to 5 pesos=1 dollar. People lost money of their lives. This resulted in many protests.