This week BSA is in Mexico City in collaboration with Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (UN) to see what is steering the scene on the street, meet artists, visit artist compounds, museums, galleries, and studios – and of course to capture the wild and dynamic Street Art and graffiti scene here. Where Mexico City goes in art and culture makes big waves elsewhere in Latin America, and its Street Art scene has been quickly evolving in the last decade. Join us as we investigate the character and players in this modern/traditional city of more than 21 million people.
Mexico City this week was full of graffiti tags, large murals oozing with character, astral techno hippie dudes, strong women, slick talkers, traffic jams, street protests, stories about the 43, couples kissing on park benches, rooftop tours, men in suits, professional ladies in really high heels, smoothly running buses, sustainable community gardens, pick-pockets, indigenous people selling crafts, police with high pitched whistles, wannabe hipsters, live rock bands, tacos, craft beer, poinsettias, quesadillas, chille rellenos, pulled pork, nopales, avocados, tortas, Frida Kahlo, babies, Bohemia, marijuana smoke, and ultimately, Ricky Martin singing for hundreds of thousands of people free in the Zócalo.
We’ll catch you up on on the details soon.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Arty & Chickle, Blu, Curiot, DFace, El Mac, Erica Ilcane, Escif, Herakut, Interesni Kazki, Maria Guardado, Retna, ROA, Saner, and Sego.
Our top image : Erica Ilcane. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erica Ilcane. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erica Ilcane. Deatail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blu. Detail. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blu. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Curiot. Detail. For Lienzo Capital Project with Street Art MUJAM. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Curated by Roberto Shimizu with the collaboration of the Mexico City Goverment on the Metro and the official building of The Nation Youth Institute
Curiot. Detail. For Lienzo Capital Project with Street Art MUJAM. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Curiot in Roma neighborhood for Capital Mural. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
D*Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Escif. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Retna. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Interesni Kazki. Detail. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Interesni Kazki. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Interesni Kazki. Detail. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Saner. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sego. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Herakut. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Mac. Detail. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Portrait of Maria Guardado, a social activist and poet from Guatemala. Ms. Guardado was tortured and killed by the Guatemalan army during the bloody civil war in 1980.
El Mac. For All City Canvas 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Arty & Chikle. “Only Love”. Street Art MUJAM in collaboration with the Mexico City National Youth Institute for Young Adults. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Torre Latino Americana. Mexico City. November 2017 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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