It’s been too long since I last shared the work of Marco Sueño. I want to see more wheatpastes like these where I’m at in Philadelphia.
Photos by Marco Sueño
Presenting AFUERA, an uplifting mural project from Peru
Last year, Marco Sueño launched the inspiring and hopeful public art project AFUERA. This initiative arose from the need to uplift the souls of communities utilizing art as a means to connect and recuperate spaces that, because of a wide array of reasons, are found abandoned and unattended. In 2012, AFUERA was launched in Cerro de Pasco, a community that is radically affected by industrial scale mining.
This year, AFUERA directed its attention towards Pisco, a city once known for its beautiful colonial architecture and coastal culture, is now facing the biggest urban decay it has ever experienced due to an earthquake that occurred in 2007. Not only have many architectural patrimonies disappeared, but also the city’s identity is at risk, affecting people and their sense of belonging and importance in a national scale. Many projects have been proposed and approved by the central government, but the results of said projects are yet to be seen.
This is where artists, community organizers and the public connect to re-engage with a city whose identity is rapidly disintegrating. I invite you all to visualize the scale of help and need that exists in Pisco and become part of the change that this city so desperately needs. Here is AFUERA’s Indiegogo campaign, I encourage you all to donate and share it to help make this project a reality.
Marco Sueño’s latest work in Mexico
Marco Sueño has been spending some time in Mexico recently, where he’s put up these pieces (and others). Sounds like he has even more and even bolder work planned for Mexico. Expect it soon.
Photos by Marco Sueño
The Street is the Sky by Marco Sueño
Marco Sueño made this wall, which he calls The Street is the Sky and includes text written with Nate Nattan Tavel, for the Lima Photography Biennial.
Photos by Marco Sueño
Weekend link-o-rama
While I spend my day at my other job explaining to people how a skee-ball tournament is art (seriously), I hope you’ll enjoy these newsbites from the past two weeks:
- Almost everything I’ve seen of this show looks absolutely amazing: Saner’s solo in SF opening today.
- You can listen to this conversation between Retna and his friend Med if you want a bit of insight into the Bowery/Houston mural, although it may just confuse things further in a good way.
- Escif has been doing some really cool work lately and I’ve been neglecting to post it, but here’s one of my favorites.
- Steve Powers and Faile designed potential covers for New York Magazine. Powers’ was used, but I’m a sucker for anything Faile so I definitely would have gone that route.
- I meant to put this piece by Marco Sueño as the image for last week’s link-o-rama, but then my hostel didn’t have wifi so there was no link-o-rama.
- Jaz took it up a notch with this mural in Lima.
- S.Butterfly’s photos of the DMV crew show in Australia are finally online and the show looks great.
- Eine painted the outside of Village Underground in London to raise awareness of the Homes for London campaign.
- GrafRank is an attempt to graph the popularity of street artists and graffiti writers online using data from flickr. Interesting idea, but they need your feedback to make sure they are getting things right.
- Juxtapoz is turning 18 and they are celebrating with a show later this month in Santa Monica. Artists include Retna, Shepard Fairey and Neckface.
Photo by Snyder
Marco Sueño’s in Cerro de Pasco, Peru
Marco Sueño recently traveled to the mining city of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, where he put up some really beautiful work. It’s so nice, I’m posting the photo twice. The piece is called “Ukukos Desconcertados”.
Marco Sueño at Living Walls
More from Living Walls Atlanta. Today, Marco Sueño. Marco is a photographer from Peru who works with stickers and wheatpastes. He did a few murals for Living Walls. Here’s how he describes this series:
Sacha Project is a muralism, photography and public space intervention that proposes, through a series of compositions that highlight the hybrid nature of icons and objects a result from the fusion between modern urban culture and the andean culture traditions a visual explorations on the peruvian identity, seen from its own transfiguration. “Sacha Project” displays how the sacred and the “Hybrid” create a jigsaw of different realities interacting through synergies and fragmentation.
Photos by Marco Sueño