Slummy Art: Popular subculture
In the city of Buenos Aires, like in other Latin American cities, there are settlements of impoverished people called "villas" (slums) because the savage capitalism has wreaked havoc on them. Social relations and strong sense of belonging are generated in the slums of the city of Buenos Aires. These bonds are so strong that they generate a culture, "Subculture" and a resistance culture.
Due to the cultural production in the slum, Martín Roisi (A.k.a Fantasma) thought that he could create a cultural space in Buenos Aires called Odisea 20 (Odissey 20), ua cultural producer located in the middle of the Slum 20 in the village of Villa Lugano. It supports and sponsors cinema productions, painting, photography, music and plastic arts. After a cultural production that has been shown for many years, they decided to show the first exhibition of Slummy Art in Boquitas Pintadas of San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires. The place works as an art gallery from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and it exhibits paintings, photographs, sculptures, serigraphs, and wall paintings of artists who dwell in the slums 20, 21, 31, and 31 A, Piedrabuena, Barracas, Zavaleta and Soldati. An orchestra composed of kids of the Slum 31 plays every Thursday.
Check Arte Villero myspace here.
In the city of Buenos Aires, like in other Latin American cities, there are settlements of impoverished people called "villas" (slums) because the savage capitalism has wreaked havoc on them. Social relations and strong sense of belonging are generated in the slums of the city of Buenos Aires. These bonds are so strong that they generate a culture, "Subculture" and a resistance culture.
Due to the cultural production in the slum, Martín Roisi (A.k.a Fantasma) thought that he could create a cultural space in Buenos Aires called Odisea 20 (Odissey 20), ua cultural producer located in the middle of the Slum 20 in the village of Villa Lugano. It supports and sponsors cinema productions, painting, photography, music and plastic arts. After a cultural production that has been shown for many years, they decided to show the first exhibition of Slummy Art in Boquitas Pintadas of San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires. The place works as an art gallery from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and it exhibits paintings, photographs, sculptures, serigraphs, and wall paintings of artists who dwell in the slums 20, 21, 31, and 31 A, Piedrabuena, Barracas, Zavaleta and Soldati. An orchestra composed of kids of the Slum 31 plays every Thursday.
Check Arte Villero myspace here.
1era expo de Arte Villero
En la ciudad de Buenos Aires como así en otras ciudades latinoamericanas, se generan cordones de pobreza denominados viilas miserias producto de los estragos del capitalismo salvaje.
En las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires se generan relaciones sociales y lazos de pertenencia tan fuertes que producen cultura, ¨Cultura Subalterna¨ y de resistencia. Con motivo de la producción cultural en la villa, a Martín Roisi (A.k.a Fantasma) se le ocurrió generar un espacio cultural en Buenos Aires llamado Odisea 20, una productora cultural emplazada en medio de la villa 20 en el Barrio de Lugano que con dotes de mecenazgo apoya producciones de cine, pintura, fotografía, música y plástica.
Luego de una producción cultural de varios años de proyección, se realiza la primera muestra de arte villero en Boquitas Pintadas de San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires. El lugar funciona como galería expositora de arte en el horario de 11 a 18 hs y expone pinturas, fotografías, esculturas, serigrafias, y murales de artistas de las villas 20, 21, 31 y 31 bis, Piedrabuena, Barracas, Zavaleta y Soldati. Todos los jueves toca una orquesta de chicos de la Villa 31.
Chequea aqui el myspace de Arte Villero.