Mexico City: High Art in Thin Air Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington - Huffington Post
go to original May 16, 2012

Ecif (All City Canvas)

An amazing week in DF with Interesni Kazki, El Mac, Saner, Sego, Roa, Herakut, Vhils, and Ecif

Gazing out at the sweep of metropolis that is modern Mexico City, you'll have to catch your breath once in a while. A culture known for it's historic public murals of the 20th Century, it appears a resurgence is at hand, but this time the muralists are international Street Artists, and the scale is soaring.

The project "All City Canvas" invited nine artists from around the world and locally to use some of Distrito Federal's prime real estate as just that - a canvas. With cranes and rollers instead of ladders and cans, these are some of the largest works we've seen by some of these artists. Here's Portugals' Vhils on the Dolores Building near La Alameda, there's Germany's Herakut on the side of the building that holds oldest newspaper in Mexico El Universal, and look way up to a signature portrait by LA's El Mac floating on the side of the Hotel Reforma Avenue.

After eleven months of work getting permission from building owners, scheduling artists, convincing city leaders, and securing major corporate sponsors, the capital of Mexico now has a few more major public art pieces that will blow you away and the resulting collection further secures this city of 21 million as one of the growing hubs of the Street Art scene.

Read the full story and see photos at Huffington Post

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