Argentina. It is an initiative of Abasto Barrio Cultural carried out with neighborhood collaboration and together with Alba Pinturas, to continue developing a reference walk for porteños and tourists of the City of Buenos Aires.
After having inaugurated in December 2022 five murals made entirely by women (which reflect the identity of the neighborhood and are part of a circuit with an axis in art and culture), the Ministry of Culture of the City, through the Abasto Cultural Neighborhood area and with the support of AkzoNobel and its Alba paint brand, announces the beginning of the second stage of public art interventions in the Abasto.
This last instance began on April 19 and ended on May 6 with a celebration at the Fiesta Abasto Barrio Cultural. The free open-air event offered music, theater, dance, workshops, talks. In addition, it was the official inauguration of the Biocultural Corridor with its new works.
The initiative (which is part of a comprehensive project of the Ministry of Culture together with the Ministry of Public Space and Urban Hygiene, the Ministry of Urban Development, and Communes 3 and 5) intervenes in the urban landscape of Buenos Aires with the aim of improving the quality of life in the Abasto neighborhood, "understanding culture and art as engines of social transformation and public space, valuing the identity of the neighborhood and enhancing the network of actors, "says the company through a statement.
In this last instance of work, different streets and spaces in the area were intervened by works of art made by artists of great trajectory with the collaboration of neighbors of the area. The first stage of work included participatory activities and workshops that strengthened the collective construction of the neighborhood's identity.
On Agüero Street, from Perón to Lavalle, a new playful work designed by a team of illustrators inspired by the imaginary of Abasto, was captured on the pavement of the road and the sidewalk. The intervention filled with color the corridor that articulates the northern and southern sectors of the neighborhood, which also connects two major social poles: the Abasto Shopping and the Parque de la Estación.
The artist Silvia Dotta made and curated the fillets that unify the proposal. For her part, the urban artist Caro Diatomea painted a mural on Agüero Street, between Perón and Sarmiento. The work is inspired by the nature of the neighborhood.
The environmental ecosystem of the same was favored and strengthened by the widening of sidewalks of the Agüero corridor, and by the creation of a green street in Guardia Vieja between Gallo and Agüero, in which an absorbent surface with plantations of native flora was incorporated.
