Even los pibes de Boca know that L.A. TACO is the sheeit! TACO spent a few weeks in Argentina back in April and found an astonishing barrage of aerosoled thoughts, protestations, classic design, and incredible details covering the cradle of dulce de leche, tango, Maradona, mate, guachos, and phenomenal grass-fed steaks up the lomo.
2001 saw massive revolts against another failed system in Argentina. Stencils were a big part of this explosion, helping citizens finally express a pent-up fury, with everyday citizens asserting their ownership of the city by literally taking the streets back in countless teams of two, yanking power back from the sham-artists ruining the country. Every agenda, belief, or thought seems to have its own stencil here.
The lasting stencil scene here is so off-the-chain, there is even a stencil backlash expressed THROUGH STENCILS! That’s enough of a mindfuck to confuse Borges himself…check out some of the street-art we snapped in Buenos Aires as well as the views we had into this country’s considerable history and culture. (These will take a minute or two to load after the jump, so go get a glass of water, you really don’t drink enough water).
Post Bar ~ Thames 1885, Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
These are photos from a bar in Palermo called Post that also houses the Hollywood in Cambodia Gallery. It is owned by a gentleman named Pablo, who a spent a pleasant afternoon with us examining the joint, which rocks over 1,600 stencils. The work is beyond belief, with multi-layered, multi-colored pieces everywhere you look and always a new find.
Pablo is like the Sticky Rick of Buenos Aires, he knows all the city’s artists, and passionately promotes and supports their work. If you are ever in B.A., drop by and tell ‘em TACO sent you. The drink specials kick ass too, with free pizza on Thursdays.
These pix come from the Bond St. mini-mall en Barrio Norte. It’s a graffiti-covered space, chock full of punk rock gear, tattoo parlours, bootleg albums, comics stores, etc…
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