Always during Under Pressure, the La Patrie Building is decorated by many artists. Beautiful old buidling but which now remains abandoned (more about it at the end of the post).
On rue Hôtel de Ville
WHERE
180 Sainte Catherine East, Montreal, Canada.
Position on Google Maps
WHO
Each year several artists are invited to paint a part of the building. The works on the top remained the same compared to last year, but below, we have a new series.
Macak
A cool work done by Macak :
Flavor & ROC514
A collaboration between Jeff Hall aka Flavor (the ice-cream) and ROC514 (the bird, he said it was only the second full body in 8 years 😀) :
Rizek
A cool work done by the Montreal writer Rizek. I love typo so always nice to see one of his work :
Luna
A cherry tag done by Luna
Acrow
Another great work done by Acrow :
La Loica
La Vie des Mapuche importe (Mapuche Life Matters) done by the Chilean artist La Loica :
Portrait of Celestino Cordova (wiki), Mapuche spiritual leader. In 2014, he was sentendced for 18-year prison for the fire that resulted in the death of the Luchsinger-Mackay couple. He did a 107 days-long hunger strike in order to visite a Rehue, sacred altar used by the Mapuche. More about this story on chiletoday.cl. Always good to learn something...
WHEN
- 2020.
Sources
Instagram :
Macak
Flavor
ROC514
Rizek
Luna
La Loica
My Previous Posts about Street Art
#318 Moule, Louis Letters & Tshoko (UP2020)
#317 Le Gentil Crew (UP2020)
#316 K6A (UP2020)
#315 LTG & POM (UP2020)
#314 123KLAN (UP2020)
#313 Mural Festival 2020
Bonus Pics
The buidling in 1976
The building, seven-story structure dates to 1906, housed the Montreal's newspaper La Patrie (founded in 1879 by Honoré Beaugrand). The newspaper was printed until the late 60's. Following the closure of the newspaper, UQAM (Montreal University) took possession of the building. In 2007, the building was sold to the Church of Scientology for $ 4.25 million. Scientology owes the City of Montreal $117,000 in unpaid taxes, in addition to penalties and interest. The La Patrie building is in poor condition since nobody occupies it. Sad...
With Street Art, you learn a little bit about the history of the city as well as the architecture. 😀
Very cool! it reminds me of abandoned buildings in Malaga, Spain. The photo showing the building as it looked like in 1976 gives a good idea about how grand it once was. Sad when buildings are neglected...Thanks for sharing.
Yep very sad and it's well located, downtown Montreal on the main street.