Previously at dare2go.com we have shown you streetart galleries from Santiago and Valparaiso . Recently we have been travelling outside of these urban centres, but this doesn’t mean that we’ve left all street art behind. Certainly we have seen less, but is seems that every town in regional Chile has some public art on walls or bridges. Since we have been travelling we have driven past many pieces which we could not photograph, mostly because there wasn’t any place to stop nearby. Still, by chance, several times we parked near some interesting pieces of street art and used these opportunities to take photos.
One thing you might notice, when you compare this gallery with our previously published ones, is that most regional towns seem to have a slightly different style compared to the really urban art found in Santiago and Valparaiso. You see more motifs depicting either the ethnic background of the community or the prevailing nature of the region. The only picture taken in a larger town is the one from La Serena, and it seems to be more in keeping with the “urban style” of the larger cities.
Now we are in Vicuña in the Elqui Valley, a small town with an alternative feel to it, and here we get the impression that many pieces seem to have some spiritual connection. There’s one photo, which we took in a vegetable shop of all places (so by definition it’s not ‘streetart’, though still public ‘wallart’), where a very detailed mural depicts Jesus among his twelve disciples on one wall, the Hindu god Krishna with some cows on the other wall – all in one large painting…
If you enjoyed this gallery you might want to compare styles with our previously published posts .Have you admired nice street art somewhere recently? Please tell us about it in a comment below…
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