Art Action
Simone Caramel has sent an example of transformative action in Argentina. Caminito (little path) was an area of Buenos Aires occupied mainly by European immigrants, many of them Italian, in the early decades of the Twentieth Century. It was also the place where the Tango was born. (Caminito Tango was composed in 1924.
But as the immigrant’s income improved they moved to other parts of Buenos Aires and the area became abandoned and was soon filled with crime. Then in the late fifties an artist, Benito Quinquela Martin, had the idea of painting the fronts of the houses in bright pastel colours. The effect was to revive the area. Bars, gift shops and restaurants opened and soon the area becama a mecca for tourists and today is very a lively area.
