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BUENOS AIRES CALLING!
graffitimundo presents: Buenos Aires street artists
London’s first collective exhibition of work from Buenos Aires street artists opened at the Pure Evil gallery, from Thursday 26th August until Sunday 12th September.
Buenos Aires has one of the most active and unusual street art scenes in the world. An economic crash in 2001 acted as a catalyst for a generation of young artists to start painting in the streets. Public acceptance of street art nurtured the scene, giving artists the freedom to experiment at a scale and level of complexity unseen in other cities. graffitimundo was set up to promote this extraordinary scene, and supports the artists through exhibitions, events, tours and an online shop & gallery.
Showcasing pieces from Federico Minuchin & tester of rundontwalk, the FASE collective, Buenos Aires Stencil, Malatesta, STENCILLAND, Chu, Defi, Orilo, and Jaz, the exhibition features some of the eclectic styles fresh out of the thriving Buenos Aires street art movement.
Opening at 6pm on Thursday 26th August
Normal gallery Hours: 10am – 6pm
Che Drinking Coke
RDW
£1500
rundontwalk have used a 2 × 2m piece of wood to recreate this iconic image of Che Guevara drinking a bottle of coke. Che Guevara as well as being a global icon is a national hero, an Argentine famous for his fight against political oppression in Latin American. The image depicts the uneasy juxtaposition between two icons – the socialist poster boy quenching his thirst with the most celebrated brand of western capitalism.
Che’s fake passport
RDW
£ 200
rundontwalk have used an intricate graphic stencil style to recreate this unusual image of Che Guevara, disguised as an old man for a fake passport. As the CIA had posted his portrait at airports and borders across Latin America, Guevara created fake identities for himself, in this case a mundane scholar in a dark suit and thick glasses. This was the last fake identity Guevara used. After entering Bolivia using this passport, he was captured and executed on October 8th, 1967.
MALATESTA
£100
DEFI
£200
RDW
£400
Rundontwalk created this image whilst Buenos Aires was dealing with the swine flu outbreak. The media had called the outbreak an epidemic, and a state of national emergency was declared. People began panicking and wearing masks to protect themselves. Schools were closed, concerts and public events were cancelled and people were even warned not to visit public places for fear of catching the virus. Around this time, rundontwalk began painting this image of the pig in a mask across the Buenos Aires, a satirical comment on the hysteria that had swept the city.
BLEEP
£30
DEFI
£200
TEC
£250
BLEEP
£35
BSAS STENCIL
£75
DOMA
£150
TEC
£250
BLEEP
£50
MALATESTA
£600
DEFI
£200
ORILO
£550
TEC
£250
DEFI
£200
BLEEP
£150
TEC
£50
DEFI
£200
RDW
£500
STENCILLAND
£150
RDW
£300
RDW
£400
BLEEP
£35
Piketero
RDW
£1000
The piketero is an immediately recognisable figure for residents of Buenos Aires, and representative of a form of protest regularly seen throughout the city – pickets without strikes. These mass demonstrations block roads and bring traffic to a standstill, causing chaos and occasionally violence. rundontwalk created this piece having been trapped in traffic for hours. The ‘I love BA’ badge symbolises the love-hate relationship that many residents have with their city.
TEC
£700
TEC
£250
RDW
£150
BLEEP
£35
DEFI
£200
RDW
£300
BLEEP
£100
MALATESTA
£100
TESTER
£75
RDW
£100
BLEEP
£35
TESTER
£250
TEC
£75
CHU
£75
RDW
£300
BLEEP
£100
TEC
£50
CHU
£200
DEFI
£175
TEC
£75
DOMA
£150
TESTER
£75
DEFI
£250
CHU
£75
JAZ
£50
CHU
£75
BSAS STENCIL
£200
BLEEP
£100
BLEEP
£30
DEFI
£175
BLEEP
£100
BLEEP
£100
CABAIO STENCIL
£150
TEC
£150
MALATESTA
£600
RDW
£150
RDW
£250
RDW
£250
TESTER
£300
CABAIO
£150
CABAIO
£150
PUM PUM
£250
RDW
£300
STENCILLAND
£150
£75
£75
£100
£100
£200
£200
£150
£100
£150
£100
£100
£150
£100
£100
£100
£200
£100
£100
£100
£75
