This was a tour I did a couple of weeks ago in Buenos Aires. I’d heard and read a lot of good reviews about it, and it appealed to me as it was cultural without being inside and walking round a museum which I’ve not quite got myself to do as yet! Sorry mum and dad…

We met in area called Palermo Hollywood and started off on foot, and then from time time we jumped in a minibus to move to other locations. Without going into too much detail, it was pretty interesting to hear how the graffiti or street art movement began here, and how it has progressed. We saw quite a few works by the same artists, and now if I see other pieces I can tell which are done by some artists. What’s appealing to me about street art is that it’s not forever, it’s for the here and now to be seen by anyone and in a few months or years it will be painted over by some new street art. In that sense it becomes more precious as its not permanent. And the scale of some of the pieces was immense! I’m not pretending to be any type of expert in the area, but it certainly a sparked an interest in me.
Graffitimundo