With 600 linear meters, it opened in the Abasto neighborhood, the largest floor art work in Buenos Aires. In total, there were almost 1500 m2 of murals, created by a group of talented women artists and to carry it out it took more than 2000 liters of paint to achieve an intervention that pays homage to the Buenos Aires fillet, intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco.
the supplyone of the neighborhoods with the most history and cultural richness in the city of Buenos Aires, is installed in the Agüero corridor, the one that knew how to connect the Fruit and Vegetable Market with the train station, today it is an art gallery from floor to ceiling. In those 600 linear meters of the side street of the mall, the illustrations of Camila Calderon and the curatorship of Silvia Dota.
In addition, the walls of the neighborhood are already creditors of 5 murals of 1500 m2 and a lighting work of 60 m2. A true celebration of color is lived in this initiative of Abasto Cultural District, carried out with neighborhood collaboration and together with Alba Paintings of the group AkzoNobel. In this stretch, the artist Dear Diatom, whose work is on Agüero, between Perón and Sarmiento, is inspired by the nature of the neighborhood.
On the other hand, Silvia Dotafounding member of the Association of Fillets and the reference of urban art and Mabel Vicentefthey carried out a mural on the wall of the COTO supermarket in Guardia Vieja and Agüero in homage to an icon woman of the neighborhood: Juana. isol mienta worked on the façade design of the School No. 6 Gral. Martín Rodríguez. To sketch this mural, the artist developed participatory workshops with 4th grade students from the school.
Close to there, Maria Luque designed the mural that is located on the façade of the vital supermarket, on the corner that crosses Sarmiento and Agüero streets. The artist carried out participatory workshops with older adults in the cultural space Almabastoand interviews in notable bars in the area –The Symbol and Bar Roma– with representative characters from the neighborhood’s cultural past.
Finally, Caro Diatom and Caro Cuore They worked on the project located in Agüero, between Sarmiento and Valentín Gómez. A participatory workshop was held with the associates of the Metered Car Cooperative to design the mural. Delia cancels he designed the mural located on one of the walls of the Vital supermarket, on Agüero street, between Sarmiento and Juan D. Perón streets. To design it, the artist spoke with the team of BA heritage and as a result of the exchanges, he decided to reissue one of his classic works. Both the Cancela murals and the Misenta and Luque murals were made by the artists Carolina Jáuregui and Suyay Brillaud.
“At AkzoNobel, within the framework of our global Come to Color programme, we want to promote these initiatives that contribute to the history of a neighborhood with a past, present and future. Giving life with the colors of Alba to the largest floor mural in the City, which in turn is a tribute to the Buenos Aires steak as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, shows us the transforming power of painting in the spirit and identity of the people,” he said. Fernando DominguesCEO of AkzoNobel Decorative Paints.
For his part, the Minister of Culture of the City, Enrique Avogadro, He explained: “El Abasto has a very marked identity that makes it a place of reference. It is recognized for its vast and rich cultural offer. For this reason, we continue working to promote this pole of art and culture based on a continuous link with the leaders of the area, to whom we provide tools so that they can carry out their proposals. We are also advancing with projects to improve public space and connect Abasto’s cultural offer, understanding culture as a motor for development and integration”.
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