Kategorie: South America

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PERU: Streetart Lima – Graffiti and Urban Art in the Peruvian capital

The Pacific coast city of Lima is the capital of the South American Andean state of Peru and, with around 8.5 million inhabitants, by far the largest city in the country. It is an important transport hub and the bustling metropolis has a well-preserved center from the colonial era with numerous universities, colleges, museums and monuments. The old town of Lima was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. However, also modern cultural heritage can be found in the streets in the form of fantastic graffiti and streetart.

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ARGENTINA: Streetart San Fernando – PAF – Paseo Festival – Awesome Urban Art Event

At the end of 2022, the long term urban art festival called “Paseo Festival San Fernando” a.k.a. PAF started to color up the city, promoted by the district municipality of Buenos Aires and organized by the prestigious artist SEBA CENER. A lot of artworks already have been finished and many more are going to come. Check out the fantastic creations and there is also a cool video included.

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CHILE: Streetart Santiago – Barrio Lastarria – GAM Complex – Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral

The UNCTAD III complex, including the 23 story tower, was built to host the UN conference on trade and development, held in April 1972 in Santiago, Chile. Once the conference was over, the architectural complex was used, as it was originally conceived, as a cultural center open to the people and called „Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral“ or in short GAM. Around the building complex are great urban artworks, check out the gallery!

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ARGENTINA: Streetart Buenos Aires – Parque Alberdi – Mataderos Skate Park – Sports & Graffiti

In 2007 a group of local skaters started a movement to have their own space to practice their passion. They presented a project to the local municipality, and in 2011, a mega skate park was inaugurated in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires! The design was created by specialized architects, and the construction was supervised by the Argentine Skateboarding Association. Besides the sports fun there are numerous fantastic graffiti and urban artworks around the area.

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ARGENTINA: Mar de Cobo – La Caleta, Parque Lago & La Baliza – Architecture & Beautiful Nature

Mar de Cobo is a town within the Partido de Mar Chiquita, in the southeast of the province of Buenos Aires. The Mar de Cobo cluster includes the districts of La Caleta, Parque Lago, and La Baliza. It is a destination that is located 25 kilometers from Mar del Plata, the largest coastal city on the Atlantic Coast of the province of Buenos Aires. This article focuses on the beautiful architecture and nature.

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ECUADOR: Streetart Cuenca – Sucre – Fray Vicente Solano – JAKE MATE JAM – ZOOSTYLE CREW

In the Cuenca district of Sucre you can find a great spray wall at the street Fray Vicente Solano which is covered all over with beautiful urban artworks. New colorful creations emerging at regular intervals, but a special event was the first edition of the graffiti jam JAKE MATE organized by the ZOOSTYLE CREW with many participating local and international artists.

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COLOMBIA: Streetart Bogota – Graffiti and Urban Art in the Capital

Bogotá is the capital of Colombia and has about 7.2 million inhabitants. Worth seeing are historical buildings in the center around the district Candeleria, the neoclassical Columbus Theater “Teatro Colón” or the gold museum “Museo del Oro”. There are also numerous sculptures made by local artist FERNANDO BOTERO throughout the city and the streets offer a true open air museum of urban art.

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COLOMBIA: Streetart Medellin – San Javier District – Comuna 13 – Urban Art Collection

With 2.6 million inhabitants, Medellin is the second largest city in the country and is divided into 16 municipalities, one of those is the notorious district San Javier, or just “Comuna 13,” which for years was a veritable war zone between competing parties and gangs. A very interesting source about this topic is the book “District 13 of Medellín: The Drama on the Armed Conflict in Medellin” by author YONI ALEXANDER RENDÓN. Besides that you can find numerous artworks in the streets. The district as a whole is just decorated all over with grandiose murals and colorful graffiti.

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CHILE: Streetart Santiago – San Miguel – Museo a Cielo Abierto – Open Sky Museum – Murales Gallery

The great mural project MUSEO A CIELO ABIERTO in San Miguel, a suburb city in the Santiago greater province Región Metropolitana, was born in March 2009. Today this open sky museum project has become the largest collective expression of streetart in Chile with meanwhile 64 fantastic huge artworks on more than 6000 m² in one neighborhood. During the years numerous national and international artists contributed and intermingled their techniques of muralism and graffiti on high scale building walls with amazing creations.

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