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Street art, is an English-American origin term that as it name describes is a specific kind of art that takes upon public spaces, walls, streets and monument as their “canvass”. The intrinsically broadness of the label attached to this kind of artistic expression that takes place on the streets in a non authorized manner, aims to contain a variety of artistic expressions that contain but exceed the traditional Graffiti idea of art. During the 90s the post graffiti era of street art introduces an array of techniques, styles and art conceptions that leads us to believe a new sort of art form is being born right under our eyes. The use of stencils, posters, stickers, tiling, collage upon public or external private walls produce a set of codes that can properly be defined as a singularized style of public-private art that’s mainly authorless at least in the way it’s shown to the un expertise passerby eye. No signing, no name attached, the individual creation becoming public turns social by means of an unnoticed and generalized appropriation of concept, style, idea and therefore, creates a completely new art world in which artists work anonymously producing collective works. The shared canvass that becomes the wall, is not a singularized property sheet that can be owned individually, whereas the work itself becomes part of a rather bigger and more extensive conception for it shares it’s meaning with other significances provided by the surrounding neighboring works that have chose to be laid next to each other. Then, the autonomous production becomes wholesome as part of a miscellaneous work upon public space that’s continuously addressed as unfinished, at least until the last bit of the canvass-wall is “artisitized”, lacking of a better word, we can invent one that aims to describe the artistic unconnected unknown collective-individual creative process. The city of Buenos Aires, alike other big cosmopolite capitals around the globe has witnessed the development of these trends and styles throughout the last couple of years. And, since we find this movement extremely interesting, we’ll be soon posting inside pieces on the nature and source of this movement, styles, development and current situation.