Street Art in Santiago! Discover the artistic and colorful side of the Chilean capital...
Known as “outdoor galleries of urban art” by NatGeo, there are many streets and corners of Santiago that attract us particularly for their works painted on huge walls and the power of their themes. Not to mention the talented, internationally renowned artists who have left their mark on the country.
Jorit Agoch, Seth, Elliot Tupac, Thierry Noir, Blek Le Rat, Edgar Mueller and Milo are joined by national talents such as Inti, Dasic Fernández, Javier Barriga and collectives such as Los Oberoles, who have filled with stories and color some of the busiest routes of the capital and who offer us their beauty free of charge.
Among them are the streets of Lastarria and Bellas Artes, located just steps from our Hotel Ismael.
Lastarria Street begins next to the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center (GAM), which lends its name to the neighborhood between the Alameda to the south, Parque Forestal to the north, and Irene Morales Street to the east and Cerro Santa Lucia to the west.
This small and charming neighborhood, near the Mapocho River, where houses and buildings of interesting architectural characteristics were built, was declared a Typical Zone, thanks to its historical monuments that give it great value: the Palace of Fine Arts, the Posada del Corregidor, the Bruna Palace and the Vera Cruz Church, among others.
And of course its streets also host various samples of Santiago's Street Art, among which stands out the Plaza Oriente of GAM, where one of the murals of the well-known collective Brigada Ramona Parra is located, famous for painting left-wing political propaganda, using only paint and not aerosol, with a clear artistic inspiration of the great Mexican muralists.
At the exit of the Bellas Artes subway station (Line 5) there is, for example, a double mural by Inti, one of the main exhibitors of Chilean muralism of international fame, showing two giant Andean-inspired dolls in earth colors.
In this neighborhood, unlike others already mentioned, there are also expressions of Street Art that do not use paint or aerosol, but adhesive elements that mark the mark of the artists in their streets and that give us clues of the evolutions of urban street art in Chile.
