“The starting point was the idea of making a box, because every time I enter Konex I imagine a box where many things happen, in the future of the sketches the box became suitcases. Each suitcase represents different things, some are opened, others are closed. Stages begin and end. In the background the birds represent everything that comes and goes, my works always have a part inspired by nature. I try not to give so much closed meaning to my creations in advance, because I believe that the contribution that the viewer makes when observing the work and giving it another meaning is very important, and generating their own stories according to the interpretation that each one wants to give it, which sometimes are a lot. better than the ones the artist thought,” he highlighted. Mabel Vicentef about his work that was inaugurated in the open patio of the Konex Cultural City.
This artistic creation is one of the murals found in the Abasto neighborhood and is part of the global program of AkzoNobel “Come to the color”, from which the aesthetic transformation of the city is sought. In recent months, various artistic creations have been developed in different parts of the city of Buenos Aires, based on painting in different public spaces. “This mural joins the more than 600 linear meters in the largest floor art work in Buenos Aires, and the 1500 m2 of murals created by a collective of talented women artists in Abasto Cultural Neighborhoodcarried out with neighborhood collaboration and together with Alba Paintings”he explained Fernando Domingues, general director of AkzoNobel Decorative Paints for Cono Sur.
Last year, the muralists Silvia Dotta and Mabel Vicentef They carried out a mural on the wall of the COTO supermarket in Guardia Vieja and Agüero. For its part, Isol Misenta worked on the façade of the School No. 6 Gral. Martín Rodríguez, located in Anchorena between Valentín Gómez and Av. Corrientes. The specialist Maria Luque held participatory workshops with older adults in the Almabasto cultural space and in notable bars The Symbol and Bar Roma. Furthermore, together with Delia Cancelacarried out two works located on the façade of the VITAL supermarket by Agüero and Sarmiento. Finally, Caro Diatomea and Cuore produced his art in Agüero, between Sarmiento and Valentín Gómez, where a participatory workshop was held with those associated with the Taximetered Car Cooperative to design the mural.
One of the most prominent murals in the iconic neighborhood of Carlos Gardel, is the largest work of art on the floor in Buenos Aires. It is located in the Agüero corridor, the one that connected the Fruit and Vegetable Market with the train station. In those 600 linear meters of the side street of the shopping center, the illustrations of Camila Calderon and the curatorship of Silvia Dotta.
“At AkzoNobel, within the framework of our global Come to Color program, 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 intangible cultural heritage of humanity, shows us the transformative power of painting in the spirit and identity of people”, declared, at the time, the director of Decorative Paints at AkzoNobel.
Finally, as you walk through the streets of the downtown area, you will likely be surprised by the painting of a giant lizard painted on the asphalt of Bartolomé Miter Street. Is about “The lizard”, an artistic intervention carried out by the renowned Cordoban muralist Tec. A painting almost two blocks long that functions as a metaphor for the resurrection of the area, and traces a path full of color towards the entrance of the Arthaus cultural space. The work, 120 meters long, is a “metaphor for the resurrection of the downtown in the post-pandemic period,” as explained by its creator, and runs along Bartolomé Miter Street, between Florida and Reconquista, leading to the Arthaus artistic space, in Bartolomé Miter 434
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