The Microcentro of Buenos Aires lives in these times a process of urban refunctionalization that increases after the months of quarantine due to the pandemic. Far from the times in which its streets and sidewalks were collapsed by the large number of public or private office workers, from the relocation to other neighborhoods of the City of Buenos Aires of bank corporate headquarters and the decentralization of public administration, the area forever changed its urban physiognomy.
Now, and by the hand of the private initiative, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the City, from next February 2 to 12 the artistic initiative Microcentro Cuenta (@microcentrocuenta) will be carried out, which aims to revitalize that area of the Federal Capital. For this, for example, the blinds of numerous empty places will be raised to rehabilitate them and establish themselves as exhibition points for works by national and foreign artists whose purpose is to “dialogue with a changing urban geography.”
The exhibition covers artistic activities, performances and visual installations and various disciplines, ranging from tapestries and murals, urban interventions and projections to concerts with bells. All this will take place in the polygon delimited by Santa Fe, De Mayo, 9 Julio and Bajo Buenos Aires avenues, with free admission.
The proposal, as explained by its organizers, aims to give new meaning to the Buenos Aires Microcentro, its spaces and the cultural importance it had in past decades.
Among the different artists that will participate in the movement are Luis Felipe “Yuyo” Noé, Martín Churba, Luciana Acuña, Federico Orio, Fernando Rubio, Agustina Sario, Matthieu Perpoint, Marcela Sinclair, Eli Sirlin, Magalí Acha and Matías Sendón. Fernando Rubio, for example, will intervene the streets of the Microcentro with films, photos, murals and texts.
There will also be guided visits to the Miradores de Buenos Aires, tours of emblematic architectural works and circuits of archaeological sites, and different cultural activities in notable bars in the area.
“We created this cultural initiative with the aim of accompanying and deepening active and sustainable cultural, social and gastronomic networks that articulate over time, and conform common agendas. We offer a comprehensive experience for those who live, visit and transit the area. An experience that accompanies the reactivation and transformation of the Buenos Aires Microcentro as a meeting place, economic activity and vital nucleus for the cultural, social, economic and tourist development of the Buenos Aires culture”, affirmed Javier Grosman, person in charge of the proposal.
While Enrique Avogadro, Buenos Aires Minister of Culture, stated that “it is a proposal that will allow the public to enjoy the City in a different way, living a unique experience in the streets, thereby expanding access and cultural proximity.
We believe in the transformative power of culture and art, which are always reinvented to generate new meeting spaces and new ways of living the City”.
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