Peruvian artist Jade Rivera was recently in Chile where he painted this magnificent mural for Barrio Arte, a project intended to promote at spaces in one of the most the beautiful neighbourhoods in Santiago, Barrio Lastarria.
The idea behind the project is to create a common territory for the arts in the area, proposing an encounter with the community in order to achieve an integral development based in a sense of belonging and valuation of the area’s architectural and cultural heritage.
The project is promoted by a number of public institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, the MAVI Artes visuales museum and the LIRA Public Art Gallery with the support of Tuborg, involving the construction of 6 large-scale murals in the bohemian quarter.
One of the invited artists was Jade, who painted this large-scale mural called “Buscando la verdad” (Seeking truth), a mural depicting a child wearing a mask while kneeling to catch a flower. On his back we see a jar with the very same flowers he seems to be picking up from the ground.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
