Beco do Batman (‘Batman alley’), in Vila Madalena, São Paulo. By Clairex on Flickr.

charla de taxi

Images from the making of White Walls Say Nothing, a film about art and activism in Buenos Aires.

Fotos exclusivas del rodaje Paredes Blancas No Dicen Nada, un documental sobre arte y activismo en Buenos Aires.

Street art, Buenos Aires, Argentina. On the corner of Avenida Independencia, by Clairex on Flickr.

The true street art!

Belenzinho, São Paulo, by camistardust

White Walls Say Nothing: Buenos Aires Street Art & Activism

A stunning trailer for a beautiful film. The people at Graffitimundo, aka Marina and Jonny, are pouring their hearts and souls into making this film about Buenos Aires street art. Watch the trailer for a glimpse of the exquisite paintings they find, foment and document. They have just 4 days left of a Kickstarter campaign to fund it and they are very, very close now. I know they’ll make good use of the $ if you can spare it. 

Pinheiros, São Paulo

by Luis Roberto Toledo, aka non-plusultra

Incredible artworks by Rauricio Barbosa, who will be doing his body-painted urban camouflage thing live on the street in São Paulo during July – find the dates, times and places of that at Time Out São Paulo.

His work is part of the 12-artist collective show, ‘As Margens No Centro’, taking place at the cool little gallery Estúdio Lâmina, from 14 Jul-15 Sept in downtown São Paulo, right on the Valley of Anhangabaú.

Daniel Melim’s painting on Avenida Prestes Maia, near Praça da Luz, in São Paulo’s Centro. It was made with a huge stencil – interview with the artist and video here (in Portuguese).

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Wurde mit Instagram in Praça da Luz aufgenommen.

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Cranio, street art in Sao Paulo

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On (or I suppose under) Rua Consolação and Avenida Paulista, São Paulo.

This is an underground passage from one side of the street to the next and it also provides access to the bus stops. There are always artists on display and a small selection of graffitti at the entrances as well. The area Is occupied by two used book vendors which I have never seen make a sale. This location has so much potential but it’s not living up to it. In a city rapidly finding less space available it should be using every last square centimetre to its fullest!

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Artwork by Isaac Cordal

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from Art & Chaos in Brazil — an interview with São Paulo graffiti artist Zé Carratu

“The artist has to help establish chaos. I think that s/he has to be critical and work on the chaos, appropriate the chaos—and that’s what I do. I work on the garbage, the rubble of the city, this is a way elevating chaos.

“I eat the culture that was given to me. I was born with the ability to have culture, to learn things and understand society. So I swallow these things that I learn. This is ‘anthropophagy’, I eat my literature. We had anthropophagists here in Brazil, the Indians that ate people. The Portuguese were good to eat! Today I eat the culture in a certain way. It’s chaos, we mix everything together. I can’t forget that I do art in Brazil. The images that I make have everything to do with this culture and this society. They are almost all fragments.

“Since I work in the city, here inside, I am using the city as a support, a context. I think it’s pretty natural, probably the same in any part of the world, that people try to understand each other in the street. From the moment I am in the street , I am mixing with society. When I am in my workshop, I am far from society, things are totally abstract. But on the streets I must make myself clear sociologically, anthropologically because I am in the middle of everyday life.”

An artwork by Alexandre Farto, temporarily on the facade of Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo. By Clairex on Flickr.

Daniel Melim’s show, at the São Paulo gallery Choque Cultural.