In recent years the vibrant graffiti scene in Bogotá has caught the attention of collectors, and artists are creating galleries like Visaje to show their work.
In Visaje “the walls are thick with many layers of graffiti,” jokes David Niño. And he’s not being metaphorical; since its opening four years ago the work of many artists has graced the gallery’s walls, each before being painted over and replaced by yet another masterpiece. In this way it is almost literally a building made of art, not only covered floor-to-ceiling by murals and canvases on the inside, but with a growing kaleidoscope of colour on the outside, on what was once “the dirtiest corner in Bogotá.”
