Wednesday, November 5, 2008

san telmo market

We took a wee walk around the market in San Telmo on Sunday, seeing as some of the guys from the UK had arrived for Alex' wedding. It was hot and there were lots of strange things to be found in the streets.


Above you can see the aftermath of a live art/music display, where the artist painted portraits of rock stars using his bare hands whilst listening and (sort of) dancing around a bit to their songs. The paintings were pretty good, but the crazy mess the guy left on the floor was much more interesting to me.



Do you call this a harlequin?


Some typical selections of polished metal objects they flog in the main plaza in San Telmo, which is like a mini-labyrinth of stalls situated suffocatingly close to each other. Hence the close-ups.


While I was there I managed to get myself an Argentine national identity document, a membership to Racing football club, and an old black and white photo of some family, all for just $20 pesos. Bargain if you ask me.

3 comments:

Mary said...

The displays look like works of art on their own the way you've taken the photograph - would be interesting to paint!

Mary said...

I actually love the pots of paint and think the paint on the wall behind resembles flames. That could happily sit on my wall as an art work. Might bo do-able?

Mat said...

yeah the paintpots were great, just such vibrant colours. the paintings themselves were done on a black canvas, quite interesting to see them appear out of the anarchic moves of the artist, but no the pots still won hands down!