Humble Street Art by Cees

Humble Mural. Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, Argentina, 2016

Just a reminder that even the most humble neighborhoods can be cheered up with a wee bit of street art in just the right place. In this case, the artist is Cees (Natalio Garcia Barros), another top-notch graffiti-mural artist from Mendoza, Argentina.

I liked this one especially because of its humility and simplicity–a bit of optimism and even some slight crowned happiness rising up out of the ruined earth to cover the rusted, precarious, patchwork of galvanized metal.

Cees often does elaborate, large works with incredible color and complexity. This one, though, is almost tender.

For an example of one of Cees larger works (in cooperation with Dötz and Zupa), take a look at the southwest corner of Manuel Belgrano and Aristedes Villanueva in Mendoza. This huge mural, which took eight days to complete, is called “Wings of Memory” and was done less than a month ago in honor of the thousands of desaparecidos of the 1970s and 1980s civil conflicts often referred to as The Dirty War.