So the ORIGINAL original Buenos Aires graffiti bike tour, which was made in conjunction with GraffitiMundo no longer exists for some two years already. Now it's back on bikes and better than ever.
The NEW Hidden Graffiti and Urban Art Biking Buenos Aires Experience was launched by Biking Buenos Aires only a few months ago. Designed by the company's expert guides Luke Engleby and yours truley 100% kiwi in Buenos Aires (here are some old piks from street art Buenos Aires photo bucket files). This biking experience explores Buenos Aire's three Southernmost barrios during almost 5 hours, and yes it is definitely off-the-beaten-track. Many Porteños have never visited these neighbourhoods, the exception perhaps being the Sunday street fair in San Telmo.
La Boca: no sooner had the newest art experience on two wheels been launched, when the city's emergence festival kicked off and dozens of artists from all corners arrived to interviene the citys' public wall spaces. This was the first time public spaces were formally and legally intervened. Color BA had an impressive line-up of artists such as: Telmo Miel (pictured above), Camille Walala, Felipe Pantone, El Marian, Martin Ron, James Reka, Mart, Amor, Gordo Pelota, Milu Correch, Gualicho, Roma, Pedro Perelman y Chu (Doma collective), Pum Pum, Marina Zummi, Poeta, run don't walk to name a few, all of which can be found in and around Alsina Arte, also known as the Art Factory.
This is all indirectly thanks to an orphan named Benito Quinquela Martin, seen here in blurry efigy above en El Caminto. Quinquela became famous for his use of colour in paintings usually depicting the dock-workers of La Boca,and single-handly asserted this marginalised neighbourhood as the art district of Buenos Aires. He also founded 'The order of the screw' a selectorder with members as distinguished as the President of Japan and Charlie Chaplin, the order unfortunately ceased with the beginning of the last brutal dictatorship after the launch of 'Operation Condor'
What to expect . . . stictly NOT for namby pamby tourists! Seriously, we visit what we call here 'complicated areas', and whilst there haven't been any gun-totting bloods or crypts we aim to get out of the neighbourhood by 4:30 5pm.
The NEW Hidden Graffiti and Urban Art Biking Buenos Aires Experience was launched by Biking Buenos Aires only a few months ago. Designed by the company's expert guides Luke Engleby and yours truley 100% kiwi in Buenos Aires (here are some old piks from street art Buenos Aires photo bucket files). This biking experience explores Buenos Aire's three Southernmost barrios during almost 5 hours, and yes it is definitely off-the-beaten-track. Many Porteños have never visited these neighbourhoods, the exception perhaps being the Sunday street fair in San Telmo.
City Emergergence Reloaded Festival of Arts in La Boca
La Boca: no sooner had the newest art experience on two wheels been launched, when the city's emergence festival kicked off and dozens of artists from all corners arrived to interviene the citys' public wall spaces. This was the first time public spaces were formally and legally intervened. Color BA had an impressive line-up of artists such as: Telmo Miel (pictured above), Camille Walala, Felipe Pantone, El Marian, Martin Ron, James Reka, Mart, Amor, Gordo Pelota, Milu Correch, Gualicho, Roma, Pedro Perelman y Chu (Doma collective), Pum Pum, Marina Zummi, Poeta, run don't walk to name a few, all of which can be found in and around Alsina Arte, also known as the Art Factory.This is all indirectly thanks to an orphan named Benito Quinquela Martin, seen here in blurry efigy above en El Caminto. Quinquela became famous for his use of colour in paintings usually depicting the dock-workers of La Boca,and single-handly asserted this marginalised neighbourhood as the art district of Buenos Aires. He also founded 'The order of the screw' a selectorder with members as distinguished as the President of Japan and Charlie Chaplin, the order unfortunately ceased with the beginning of the last brutal dictatorship after the launch of 'Operation Condor'
What to expect . . . stictly NOT for namby pamby tourists! Seriously, we visit what we call here 'complicated areas', and whilst there haven't been any gun-totting bloods or crypts we aim to get out of the neighbourhood by 4:30 5pm.
- LOTS of amazing murals
- - UNESCO sponsored urban art
- - state-of-the-art design facility and even a hard to locate (in Buenos Aires at least), yogurt icecream!
- Parts of the city and history you won't get with anyone else except the expert guides at Biking Buenos Aires
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