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PABLO DI MARCO
When I first met Pablo Di Marco I noticed something very unique about him: he looks like a teenager but his eyes are always nostalgic, even sad. As if he has lived a thousand years. Or maybe a thousand lives, like the...
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When I first met Pablo Di Marco I noticed something very unique about him: he looks like a teenager but his eyes are always nostalgic, even sad. As if he has lived a thousand years. Or maybe a thousand lives, like the...
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Sol means “sun” in Spanish. And I feel sunny when I entered Sol Linero´s place. Her house is like a pearl in the middle of the jungle. It is, of course, filled with beautiful and delicately chosen stuff. Kitchen s...
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There’s a cute and cozy office at the back of a store, where nice people make nice things. That happens a lot in Buenos Aires. Everywhere, we discover people making incredibly nice and wearable stuff for us, lucky vis...
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The first time I saw songwriter Seba Ibarra was on Pecha Kucha night Volume 11 at Ciudad Cultural Konex. He came on stage with just a guitar, and he just sang. It was a song about a river, a river he always sings to. ...
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“Painting is a liberation path”, affirms Alejandro Parisi with a smart smile. As most painters, he began drawing as a little boy and he was very good at it. He remembers using the same colours now than when he was ...
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The artist Rodrigo Vazquez Avila works with his hand and his mind. His artwork can be defined as purely a matter of imagination. Through a cathartic liberation, he stands in another place to see his own world. And wha...
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August and September are photography months in Buenos Aores. The "Light Festival" is taking place right now and all museums and art galleries are filled with creative energy. One of the events that recently too...
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This was the 13th Edition of ArteBA Fair in Buenos Aires. This fair works as a platform for information and knowledge of our regional art, where we can see a strong presence of curators and an important participation ...
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The Japanese Garden is situated in a very green neighbourhood in Buenos Aires: Palermo. It was built in 1967, when the Japanese emperors Akihito and Michiko came to Argentina. In the eighties, the Garden was se...
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"I'm trying to leave some trace behind me so someone knows I was here" - El Colectivo de Julian El Colectivo de Julian is one of our local examples of what we call music now. Their first album, "Colegiales Expr...
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"I once wrote a story about a man who absorbed everyone's pain and was slowly dying. The story ends when he dies in the middle of a downtown street while everyone around still keep transferring their pain to him. It w...
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It's a cold rainy afternoon and I enter the traditional bar 36 Billares in Buenos Aires downtown. He's there, sitting at one of the tables, close to the window and just before I come in, he gazes at his watch with a s...
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It was a sunny Sunday morning when I took a ride to La Boca, one of the most ancient and popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. I didn't really know what to expect, because I used to go there as a child and it wasn't ...
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The sixth Edition of Fashion Week was held from 1st to 4th September in the Rural Society. This time, it was slightly different form the last ones. Designers were willing to show their creations through original, funn...
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Located in a tourist and traditional neighborhood called San Telmo, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires (MAMBA) building reminds us of the Middle East architectural style. In San Telmo, we can see the cohabitatio...
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The monumental Tower of Retiro was the scenery for the launching of Reading for Breakfast's first book. The event has taken place on June 7th. in a freezing Saturday afternoon in Buenos Aires. Despite the weather, the...
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Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city, and a very contradictory one. Last Monday, on May 12th, the Latin American Museum was the scene for the presentation of Venus Project, one of our latest local ways of surviving the...