This week I had a chance to take a tour of some of the staples of graffiti art culture in Mexico City. I went to this amazing cultural center called El Faro, it is a huge building that houses different art workshops such as sculpting and Nahuatl language courses. Pictured above is an "Alebrige", a type of traditional folk art sculpture, a product of one of El Faro's workshops. The exterior of the building is covered in aerosol murals (Pictured in the second row). I also checked out a marketplace near the Isabel la Catolica Metro station where any budding artist can find all kinds of aerosol paint and markers (pictured below). Across the street from the marketplace is the underground hip hop store called T.T. Caps (click the link to view T.T. Caps' blog or visit gritarap.blogspot.com). T.T. Caps sells graffiti art magazines, clothes, vinyl as well as demos and CDs from local hip hop artists.
Maintain also has a shop over here on Sunset ran by Duce, cool cat.
ReplyDelete@ Doña Junta thanks for the info. I'll have to check it out.
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