Art

Street art in Bogotá

 They are the most public artists in the history of Colombian an Bogota's art: art free, playful.

His name does not matter. They are the most recognized authors gummed and Street Art in the walls of Bogotá, a current plastic that has put the city at the forefront of the art world. Young urban Toxicómano Gouache and have made hundreds of walls and heads of the city the scene of a recurrent and transient exposure of an art steeped in humor, criticism.

How strong is Bogotá in the global context of the 'Street Art'?

Drug Addicts: the movement is so strong that in two years will mark Bogota further trend. More and more people come to the city to paint, mostly Europeans, who open one perspective.

Gouache: Bogotá is is rayadísima. From the look of the passer, there's no room, but from mine, transform ideas into the fabric of the city, and if there is room.

There are any influence of pop art?

Gouache: Yes, but think about it. I saw many things that were appropriations of pop art, as transformations, teasing, and I said: What bacano! I am always struck by the dark side of the design and I also became interested in politics.

Do they make political art, rebellious?

“ We're always giving a version of events. When I was in college, was very fond of radical groups such as primary reaction moved from the state. But it was basically playing the same. Then I began to find them the break to find structures and more with libertarians, less pretentious moved inadvertently save the world.”

 “We try to make communication a breeze, the speeches at the end turn out to be for the intellectual elite. We like the simplicity, easy to digest phrase. At first everything was critical, but lately I reiterate the message simple, with the idea of ​​getting a space in the minds of people.”

 Giant structures always stayed with the simplest. Ideologies pretend to have answer to everything.

Well-managed, artistic talent of hundreds of young Bogota could be one of the best bets to revitalize public space of Bogotá and point paths for positive change and participatory citizenship. What do you think?

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