Real Streets of Colombia
today I'm going to try to talk to you about a topic that people in Medellin and myself don't like to talk about because it's disgusting it's about the narco-terrorists and about the mafia people and about the Cali cartel the Medellin cartel a lot of people come to the to the city and they're going to go they want to visit or try to do a tour to visit those places where pablo lives where he was killed etc etc for us as paisas we don't like to talk about we hate to talk about and today finally it's gonna happen something nice i'm gonna tell you about that like they stay in the poglado and go to the tour scene and like this is something that we hate that is because it's something that a foreign people come they can understand that there's thinking about a we can we want to learn about a public square and something oh no no no i don't i'm not my guy we hate that i'm not that type of guy so they come to learn about him and just go to the public and meet beautiful girls and we are not like that you need to watch how you talking to certain people because you you start to talk about that and we are going to block you yes this is something we hate uh huh so if you start like oh we want to learn about paul square we want to know about drugs we're like what are you talking about the real streets of colombia i couldn't figure a better place to do it than film it here in medellin colombia when you type in real streets of columbia online all you see is filth enticing foreigners to come to a country for the wrong reason that's why i'm creating this video to show you the real authentic lifestyle that is colombia let's begin on the streets now hopefully i can change your mind all right guys so this is one of the programs they actually have in colombia is to um promote physical fitness it's called ciclovia it's mainly for the bike riders right here however people use it to run and so each city runs does things differently so for example this is medellin right so they block the street here they do the same thing in bogota in major cities badenki also has a program every sunday people go outside with their family and work out this is something that people are proud about they love they can't wait to do they come out with their families it's one of the things that people really miss out about coming to columbia it's a it shows you a sense of family uh look i even have music out here guys it's something special guys trust me how much people you think is out here right now i don't know at least uh probably like 10 10 000 i don't know like when i first came here to medellin and you've seen it in my old videos this was like a surprise to me and i felt like i was left out every sunday i didn't do this you know it's like yo did you go out you oh you missed out and i love to look at the dogs man it's like dog day every breed is out every breed this is like where you see all the dogs and everything this is one of the cool things about coming to the place like this we're in poblado area but there's also several areas all over the city that's also doing this and i can say this for other cities as well they'll have all these programs but i think like this one is this their longest stretch of running area this is their uh local farmers market here this is where you can get some fresh produce and they got some coffee here and uh can you put it more chili powder this is something that you made here in um spicy let me ask you a question a question is okay different on businesses different uh businesses from Medellin and they come here to sell their products here so for him he's making chili pepper don't necessarily say chili pepper okay so it's a town two hours away and they came here to sell some chili pepper contact chili pepper okay so they've got different types of chili over here okay that's cool all right okay so this is the best place gotcha okay all right thank you okay like i said i like to come here because i like to see the dogs here i've noticed that in medellin they are really in competition to see who was going to have the most exotic big dog it needs to be big and fat okay so we got some arapa here guys okay we have some um soup hola como estas okay see this is like coconut soup right here and it's uh pasta and fruit oh everything's in english there you go guys really good good great mustache okay how are you okay so you're shopping for um some nice plants is that strawberry what else you know this is tame okay there's time right here are you a cook well yeah sometimes you came here to buy some food to cook some food right yes and always come here this is what you like to do every sunday every sunday we come here to buy from the people directly so we can cook amazing dishes and then you actually helping them out yes my dad and we're buying all these plants because we also have a garden and we like to grow plants wait a minute you're an interesting woman okay so you like to do old plants you like to eat organic are you vegetarian since i was born i knew it and so this is really good this is yummy to you great this is the best place for me ever who showed you how to become a vegetarian you're your father your father oh my mother they're both vegetarians you guys are uh paisa yes yeah well i was all my families for medina but i've lived in bubble town my life so i have left okay that's okay so now you're back here in medellin and how do you like it so far i love it i'm coming to live here now because of the pandemic i'm gonna spend some time here i was born here all my family both sides lives here and then i went to live to bogota with my mom since i was very young i grew up there went to school went to university but all my family lived here including my dad so now i'm coming to live here with my family that's like the plan one question all right a lot of people are worried about coming to colombia they still think crazy things what could you tell people about medellin right now coming to medellin i think i mean colombia has a history a difficult history but i think we've been managing to change it i think we're going through a very nice time i think it's a good time to visit i mean for me medina is one of the best cities in the world you have some of the most amazing people colombia you can come and visit them there's the ocean pacific the atlantic the ocean the atlantic ocean pacific ocean amazon so it's like an amazing spot like you shouldn't miss it obviously it's a bit damn you have to be careful you have to walk on the street and be careful but it's the same as it working in new york in some of the toughest places that's like my opinion but thank you okay nice to meet you okay all right have fun this is family time for a lot of people people love to do this this is something they oh it's sunday you already know get ready just get dressed and come out some of them gonna go work out and some of them are going to go shopping awesome every sunday they close this street so people can ride bikes and walk and the best place in which we can play in the streets to perform in the street you love it just have people walking it's good energy you see people are working out and hearing some good music what type of music were you playing it was like a it's a it's a fork of all the world celtic music some arabic music colombian music latin american music i actually felt all of that in what what you were playing is that original music music sure traditional music oh what what is the name of your band balance and you guys are from Medellin, yes you mean security yeah yeah now managing right now is like safe it depends it all depends in where you go imagine you know like there are places like you shouldn't go but right here for example in Poland and then it is like safe for strangers and I love this I feel like I'm missing out on um just the energy and working out you guys also you guys have a traditional sound right is that the Medellin sound no what is the Medellin sound, music from Medellin no no no no no no no no the thing is like there is no like too much sense of pertinence with the music here you know so people imagine it's a mix of many cultures so you see people like from all parts from Colombia and from the countryside so people mostly the music that here's is like mostly natto poros reggaeton is one of the cities which is like top reggaeton producers carol g from Medellin right uh maluma so you guys have like some good artists coming up and so hopefully these guys will be the next on tv if you can say one thing to people, uh you should all come here like there is a lot of places there is a lot of diverse people is nice and all right thank you guys I really appreciate it all right thank you okay I noticed that Medellin has like serious life yeah okay hey man i love your dog man i saw you walking over there saying yo he's the biggest out of everybody today uh he said she is coco okay she's oh she's a great dane is that a great day oh my gosh did you get her here no i uh i'm actually from uh texas texas okay you brought her uh-huh i flew on the plane and everything oh man three seats three seats wide look at look look she's actually she's actually getting a lot of attention from people what do you what do you think about the dog culture here and um it's awesome man everyone's friendly and hanging out and you know that's why i love i live live over here so it's just like perfect come here on sundays and close the street now it's badass and this is the energy of people just running up and down it's like you have to do that yeah well they also just opened up the city and stuff just recently so now everyone's like so tired of being inside they want to get out they want to run do something so it's awesome the weather's so nice you can't help but go out and run do something you know nice nice cocoa so you you chose to live in medellin there's plenty of other cities that are dope here in colombia why medellin uh i'm learning spanish okay and the accent's a lot it's very clear here uh and the weather and the city of eternal spring perfect man per cost of living and stuff the only thing i miss is amazon oh yeah well but there's like all these like oh there's like international shipping charges on top of that so some items are like double the price so it's crazy but uh yeah i know it's awesome man dude this is a great city you live in it's badass and she is so beautiful wow man wow the boys get even taller the boys another couple inches get it she's 135 pounds the boys gets like 150. wow that's insane man that's insane but now it's about she's usually cuter without her no no no that's a true essence of dog man you could tell she's happy just being outside right you could see it in her face she knows sunday she knows oh so yeah do you feel okay living here because you know there was all these stereotypes if you didn't visit here there was you know a lot of people might have thought it might have been one of these cities that you got to be cautious about traveling to that's like my parents thought that but they don't really know anything you know they've never been a lot out of the country's never really seen anything so the only thing they know is from movies so it's like oh the only thing in the know is you know maybe dangerous back in the day but this is a modern city it's like i'm taking uber's places it's like it's 2021 you know everything's modern it's nice beautiful yeah i think i stared that's way gone there's bad areas everywhere in dallas texas that's where everybody go i would die there's places you just don't go you know so you stay out of those areas don't act like an idiot and respect people and don't get drunk and be stupid you'll be just fine and learn some spanish you know like you're in there you're in a whole nother country you respect them learn their language you know all right man thank you man appreciate it man all right all right man you enjoy all right peace this is a gallery we have okay because it's an amazing place when is it open it's a private gallery so it's usually open like uh tomorrow yeah yeah it's open tomorrow and I can we can film the private gallery, oh oh guys we're going to the gallery okay thank you I really appreciate it I'll call you later on today what's your name my name is Leon perfect Leo all right all right so basically he's been saying the same song everybody's saying. some areas are dangerous but they face the same problems the whole world faces in terms of security but relatively this place is a safe place foreign i'm here in downtown area now and i'm just checking out the sights and scenery quickly downtown is the area where you're gonna find a lot of cheap things here guys it's one of my favorite downtowns in columbia i'm so used to walking around this area um a lot of history if you've been watching my channel and um it's a cool vibe some people can be afraid of this area i'm not you know you walk with a purpose and um all these people are here for a reason man to get a good deal if it was uh kind of sketchy or dangerous they wouldn't be here they would avoid it now granted as we've been talking about there's so many different areas you can't go here that will be a little sketchy uh but this area generally on this side of town things are a little bit cool as you can see a lot of people are eating and enjoying their time it's a it's not a bad situation but you have people out here serving trying to sell you all type of things okay so i guess she was trying to sell maybe a tattoo or maybe piercings you need a great bargain on some counterfeit clothing this is where you will go i'm actually in need of a belt so maybe i'll find a belt and maybe some shoes i want to get some new shoes some black and white shoes hola have a little momentum let me see if it fits me right all right okay I'm on it so this one she's charging me 25 1 000 pesos but it's a little tight yes I'm 25 I'll pay for it see the street has its own symphony to its own music and that's a part of it right there that's dope got me a belt paid around eight bucks for it uh might be paying way too much but you know for me it's you know you know I'm helping out the economy, either way, I'm saying yo no no you're single everything yeah you got the knives over here just in case you gotta stay a little get ready did you eat already uh I think last summer breakfast me too last thing I ate was breakfast I wouldn't mind looking for something to eat here this uh this is actually the tallest building in medellin right here it's like what is that a dollar fifty for 30 days of netflix this is one of your um busier um streets to walk right here a lot of people come from this angle it's really a good street to walk down you know what I mean it's windy down here I like it a matter of fact I have my favorite um jersey lady she actually is in that area now they could come here so I'm actually gonna try some of the food you can find here downtown it's a pizza spot right here we got Hawaii you got uh the vegetarian ones and I'm going for the five cheeses right here this one looks really good all right here we go, guys, this is the five castles right here it looks really good it has some blue cheese in there and um some American cheese looks like there was some parmesan cheese up in there we'll try to name a few totally worth it really really good so good let's see mucho so this is so they have mushrooms in there blue cheese uh sauce in there as you can see all right so this is like one that's popular but she recommends trying that one so we'll see if we can come back all right guys so we're actually entering Simon Bolivar park this is a park where you're gonna find a lot of people just hanging out any time of the day if people ain't have nothing to do they'll come here uh families might show up hanging out I've been here several times before um last time I was here two years ago they had this place um closed down I guess they did a little bit of renovation here another reason why a lot of people like to hang out here because the city actually provides wi-fi for everybody so it's a good haven if you're trying to look for work or trying to do some research or you know just trying to connect with people you could come here relax and enjoy that energy that's here all right guys so we're actually right in front of the parque botero park right here this is where you'll find all the statues of parque botero but it's one of the most congested areas in downtown central area one reason is because they're metros rails here a lot of commerce happens here there are a lot of uh free markets here all right it can get a little crazy but we'll check out some of the crowd here so you can get a cool idea here i never recommend people watching street performances here because you you you leave yourself successful for pickpocketers all right as far as things in my pocket i make sure everything's in front of my pocket in my pocket and uh i'm always paying attention plus i got my boy here you know what i mean so he's watching my back but if he wasn't here i still be fully comfortable being in this area um i just have to move a little bit differently so you do the same you should be fine mirror mirror on the wall who is the flyest vlogger of them all i'm back so guys we're back at um parque fernando bortero i think it's called parque bortero and as you can see there's a bunch of people here um just enjoying your time this is where you're gonna find a lot of tourists um some who are colombian but they um live in different parts of the country and um you're gonna find a lot of locals here gonna find a lot of hustlers here uh but for the most part this park there's a lot of government what's going on for the most part there's a lot of security here that make you feel safe as you can see you have all type of street performers here then you have your street vendors here i'm trying to uh make a quick bud and you got some a guy right here like a statue here yeah it's everybody's trying to hustle here but i i will say this i have come here before and i i did take advantage of buying one of those statues so it might be a cool place to get uh souvenir here it's getting kind of dark over here do you feel kind of safe here or i mean it ain't the safest place what could you recommend somebody doing um to prevent not getting um assaulted or robbed or just stay aware you know don't be don't let people linger towards you stay away from you know areas that you know are just bad situations like you don't want to go walking into a a group of dudes you know i mean try to stay in uh at least two-man pairs say if you have to travel you by yourself okay well you probably don't want to come down here when it get dark that's one why would you be down here if it's dark i don't know maybe you're looking for trouble probably yeah maybe you're adventurous or you're a risk taker maybe you're like a bear you're looking for honey you tell me that down here nobody get in trouble looking for honey all right i've gotten lost coming out here refusing to look at the map because there's so many areas you can find yourself in it can get really confusing walking down these streets it's uh five o'clock and this place is getting even more congested the reason why is because a lot of people are leaving work and so a lot of people come to this area there's a lot of different bus stations you can catch in this area and then a lot of people want to get the last minute shopping and you know there's a lot more women in medellin so who women like to shop needed to see all right i'm back over here on this strip because i want to get another one of those five castles what's going on my brother hey man shout out to you this is your name right here that's right man uh i gotta give it up to you you guys are very talented guys you know what i mean how have you been playing the drums it's like a jumbo this is no it's it's a drum set and it's like a a dream box it's like a dream box okay my same box i see you play with your hands man how long you been doing this have you ever seen people playing with their hands well my english is nobody good but i try okay so you guys are you know you're from venezuela yeah venezuela yeah okay um how do you feel about now that they're letting um over i think over 1 million what are the 1.4 million people get legal status here for ten years this is like uh is it good or bad i don't know well it depends to get your id at least it'll be official it's like i did for 10 years can you catch the bus now and go on plane yeah i think i think so okay what do you think about medellin is it a good city is that the best city and is it the best city after canada oh very good man it's like a Caracas it's like the same okay but what about where you're working downtown Medellin is it Peligroso o seguro nice to be why people come over here in Spanish okay so basically saying it's a tourist location but it also serves the community big time they got banks here you can get some good clothing here it's one of the oldest um places to shop in medellin so I think that's one of the reasons all right thank you, brothers, I really appreciate it man keep on rocking man all right you guys are very talented all right I'm here at the ah art gallery remember I met a woman that was just showing me some vegetables and she ended up inviting me to her gallery here this gallery is in between the parque poblado area and the train station this is a famous 10th street right here so you can actually walk to the metro right here like right in between I used to pass this place all the time so I'm looking forward to seeing this gallery so let's go check it out all right and I think I press this I want to learn more about the artists from this country and from the city maybe we can learn more about what medellin is by looking at the art hello oh it's loud outside it is loud okay welcome all right okay so this is an art gallery in the gym we have all sorts of artists here most of them from colombia but we also have some amazing artists from latin america today we're going to show you very fast some of the artists from medellin that's like the point of this documentary i would like to tell you very fast this is an old house from medellin a very typical house what they used to do in architecture back then was these very long houses that they would have like a long a corridor with the rooms on the right hand side and then it would end up in a very big garden so like all these houses together would create like a small garden in the center of the blocks and having like a natural lawn for the city do you know when this house was built or this building this house was built well we think this house is a very old mainly because apparently medellin was born in plaza um del poblado so this house is very near to plaza del povlado so we have an idea that this house can be like very very old we don't know for sure when it was built but uh because of the architecture that i'm telling you about it makes sense that it's gonna be that way okay okay this is beautiful by the way i just love the way everything's set up you know why because when you're outside i you don't imagine seeing this and then you come in here and it's everything's open space it felt kind of crap outside that but here it's like huge so go ahead tell me what you got yeah and also you're gonna notice that there's no not much sound and the further we go in the less sound you're gonna hear because katya diaz is one of the most like yeah outside yeah it's it's a big difference okay let me start by um showing you this which is like one of our artists and he's he's from an indigenous community in the south and southeast of colombia and his name is carlos hakanami and what he does with his paintings is he tries to he tries to show us um the things that he sees during his rituals um they have uh these rituals with ajawaska in his uh in his um what is alaska what is that ayahuasca is a plant it's like a plant that is used by many indigenous communities around the world well mainly in america actually because i think it's endemic from america and what they do is they transcend us by drinking this plant um and they get to see like all these different universes um it's like a therapy because through this plant they like um find some answers for things they've been searching for and it's the way the all eldest teach the young so it has a very important like impact this is awesome yeah so this is something what he sees yeah these are some of the images he sees when he's doing these rituals with his community and he's like very colorful as you can see he's very famous here he's been i mean he's part of some of the greatest collections i think he's part of the smithsonian museum he's been to china he's part of the tate i think as well i mean i'm not very like 100 sure of the um of the collections that he's in but i can tell you that as soon as we're done with the tour sorry catholic influences well yeah actually this wall is some of our older artists like let's say old masters but like colombian which are very influenced by europeans obviously and as you know back then it was very much like religious types of art um when you say master spaniard are you talking about spaniard i'm talking i mean these these are artists from the beginning of the 20th century in colombia and they usually came from europe like they want to study abroad and came back with all these techniques and with all this knowledge so we have things that are obviously very much influenced but by what was going on there and as you know back like a long time ago religion was one of the main topics in art it was like religion landscapes and something else and it it it gradually turned into different topics different techniques that's what makes contemporary art like different and so here we still have some of these very religious images although this for example is from a very contemporary artist that we well his name is and he's like this is more contemporary this is like an appropriation of these religious works but from a different perspective like from contemporary art because you can see it has different techniques and it's like repeating Jesus and all these it's so it's very different than one of these patients obviously which is much more this actually reminds me of an album in my scene from drake album this is one of our most important artists in medellin um it's called la plaza it's a very famous spot in medellin it's a big plaza with uh like some tubes that go up and they have lights and they have like different sizes um he did that work uh artwork with his son who's a big architect in medellin as well so he's like one of our icons um the other very important artist from melody it's called he's called he works with these type of stones this is volcanic stone oh yeah these are volcanic stones called the uh lutita in spanish what is the reason why he used to work with stone since the beginning he has some amazing sculptures in marvel if you go to new york there's like a big sculpture of his in marvel and like where's the university located it's very near it's in las vegas uh like very near to this to here in the city in the city yeah there he has an amazing sculpture it's not marble actually it's like a white stone where does he get his uh his stones okay so these stones that are now like the main material that he uses he came across them one day he was walking one of these stones broke and he realized that the top that the like the tainted outside is different to the to the to the color inside so you see so this is the color inside this is the color outside so he realized he could play with this and since then this became like his main and his main tool let's say or primary source and these are only found in very specific places where there used to be an ocean or a source of water before and it's very difficult to find them he says that they they are ah you don't know no like when you grow crops okay what the what's the name of that moment harvest, okay so he says he harvests them because they fall like from the top of the mountain at certain points and then he has to find a trolley to bring them truly like a crate crane to bring them out of there it's like a huge work is that in Colombia or different in Colombia everything in Colombia and there are huge pieces of stone that you have to carve and make into different things but so he yeah when he finds them it's like a big job to get them somewhere else all right you can see some big ones here for example this is him this is him as well and these these are like the twin towers okay these are actually mine but you like to put them there yeah so like uh everything here is for cell pretty much everything here is for sale okay um this is him as well okay let's continue with another artist from medellin okay his name is alejandro okay he works with memory so as you can see these all these pieces of wood come from different places wow you see wow this is nice check this out so this this all used to be a part of something um a chair a table um at closet these are very like famous closets from here that used to be huge and very like bulky and so he takes all these pieces of wood and he turns it into these new objects which are obviously like very contemporary artworks uh he has these spheres that are he's very famous for but he also does this which is amazing so we have in colombia we have a type of bird that makes this nest this is the nest of a bird called gulungo so the way it works is the bird takes a long time making the nest and then he just waits for a female well for a for a girl for a female bird to come to to come and choose his business creation yeah and then the the the bird is gonna the female bird is gonna choose the creation based on how good the architecture of the nest is so alejandro does this as well with pieces of wood that you can see are also from other spots and places just to finish is jason sierra another one of the artists we represent an amazing artist from medellin he works the topic of mining he comes from a very like a minor community so obviously all his family has been into mining and he grew up into this world but he's been very critic of it and he tries to express some of this criticism through his artworks so what he does is he paints this which are like landscapes of gold and silver is the way they're called and what he tries to show is like what we're like what were we having all this gold is under the mountain but the landscapes are turning so gray because we're just like devastating everything in order to get that the gold out he has another series that is more on a golden palette so he's also like um trying to to yeah to question this you can see the last here you see so these are like very grey landscapes that have these very small uh lakes and rivers of gold that are being lost let me show you the other room the other exhibition room okay well this is like you know it's a kitchen and then you have like a huli we didn't uh show them police our assistant yeah so yeah this is like it's uh you know I love how this house has tall ceilings yeah I'm telling you when you're outside you don't expect to walk into this yeah yes it's like imagine like you expect something else but then you get here and you realize that things are not the way you think they are all right okay um yeah this well this just to show you like these are some of the parts of the house this is crazy full of things that you can see and this is another exhibition room we have one of the things that we take like great pride is that you when you come to visit this gallery this is an experience like we like to mix art with experiences and to make people fall in love with art so for that reason this garden is very helpful because people come here and they also get to see like some of their typical plants from here we have we have a lot of here which have sadly disappeared but it will come back it comes back every now and then and what we do here well my father he's a botanic lover like a garden maker so all of the things you see here have been grown here and we try to have like a little bit of everything and we have amazing birds I met you at the full market um look at her she's uh she's like she comes to visit often so but she's not supposed to do that because she's damaging there so I'm going to scream up here sorry for that because she damages the newly born uh leaves so we're fighting with her but she's like from home we always leave her some uh so she has her food here she doesn't need to go there she likes she doesn't need to go there and she also has a nest there with some babies oh okay but they love like they have huge teeth that grow very fast so they need to be like by doing something so she's not allowing these trees to grow because she'll start if you stand up here you can see she'll start attacking so then that is not gonna grow and she loves it so we're fighting with her every day she knows you she comes in knows me because she comes every day but she's stressed because I didn't let her eat them so now she's like she's not coming to us now I want to show you this which is a very nice place that you're gonna meet this is the library as I was telling you before we try to make people have a great experience, where when they come to see art in this gallery. Part of that experience includes
having a lot of books so you can show them not only the piece that they're looking at but other works from that artist and other artists that came before this is their welcome wow my father's office um but it has like an amazing I would have never expected this oh man so this this all this whole area is just art basically potato whom you know yeah potato is like wow like fernando potato yeah the sculptures the sculptures that you've seen in the plaza otero well just potato is like you have so many books about him from here to here this is just potato all of this wow yeah so but you have everything you have obviously picasso your family actually grew up you grew up with your family into art yeah i grew up in twilight and my my father's my parents friends are all artists since i was born look she's sitting now she's eating what she's supposed to eat um so my father's a friends are all artists and we've been growing up in the art world in general how can you uh describe i know you mentioned you were in bogota for a while but how could you describe the art scene here in medellin and what are you you like you mentioned you showed me an indigenous um yes painting and then there was one where the guy was showing you the differences of like what what gold mining can do to the landscape so i think a lot of people like to use art to address social issues totally yeah which is a nice thing actually art i feel art is like a language is like a tool that you use to communicate something and in this case i i mean it usually has a lot to do with society issues with political uh topics things that the like you want to make a claim let's say um this happens often but there's also space for just love or admiration for nature and stuff like this um i think the the difference between medellin and bogota is big i mean bogota is a much bigger city with more money we could say maybe um but but because it's more cosmopolitan it's more like people are much more into collecting into buying artworks that are expensive um medellin is different in that sense because we have a growing community of collectors but it's not as big as bogota yet and also there's like an idea that you don't spend that much in art and you know art is its art is expensive because like we saw before this guy that makes the hyper realistic paintings he takes one month painting this so it takes like a lot of effort and it's expensive so medellin doesn't have this idea of the expense of art so clear yet like i think it's growing and it's becoming stronger but for sure bogota has like a bigger market in that sense uh medellin has uh quality though it's got amazing artists like the the number of great artists in medellin is like very big so it's like a artist hop in colombia definitely for sure but obviously in terms of market well it's got some differences with bogota i wanted to show you this because you were mentioning the the artist the indigenous artist so i said made some of the this is like uh this he painted this yeah but this is made by asep which is like a a brand from colombia and so this was made on his i mean inspired by this artist oh this was inspired by him by carlos okay and yeah i could take ages like showing you thousands of artists no this is a this is a this is interesting to see i mean it gives you a good idea of what people are what's important for people you know what i mean so and um here you get to have like a look at many different styles of art types of artists in colombia which is interesting definitely there is a community here for artists and um people and art lovers here right so is there like a special time where are you guys meet up in here here in medellin well actually we here at in the gallery we do that effort often and what we do is gather people like sometimes we do reunions with artists so we'll have like a great sancocho and all of them come together other times we do it for example with the with people from the art world like some of the directors of the museums some other galleries so we'll just gather and talk about certain topics uh there's other moments where we just do it with clients so what we try to do here is have like very private reunions but where we can set the the tone for like talking about art and reflecting on this um that like as a gallery but as a as a city medellin offers a lot of cultural things like art imagine is moving a lot and they're trying to make it like move every time more and we have two moments in the year where art is like pretty strong the first one and most important one is around october when we have art ball fair it's like the most important fair in colombia and it's like the time where we have all these collectors coming from abroad in order to see some of our artists and where we have like a big movement in earth in the year and then there's another time which is like a less uh important but it's still gaining momentum it's at the beginning of the year around may and we have artboard weekend so it's like the art warfare from at the end of the year they make like a small weekend and this is in order for people to be like paying attention to our yeah also we it manages to bring collectors and obviously art is a market it's a global market by now and we obviously aspire our artists to enter this global market so the more collectors we have from abroad the more public we're able to give to our artists which is great but it also works against us like i was telling you before making art very expensive because once you enter like an international market and you have such a weak peso um everything becomes really expensive so it's like a fight between not letting the prices go up but wanting to get them out into that market which is bigger and it will mean the artist is going to gain more money it's like it would have helped the artist out but then he's going to lose some clients as well here your local clients yeah so it can come hard for him as well in terms of sale sales sale sales sales so anyway what i was wanted to to to say also is i think it's great that we have this hard fare i think it's great that we are doing this effort but i think it's sad that at the end of the day everything a comes together in that particular moment of the year i wish we had more of these events throughout the year in order to keep art like an important thing constantly because art is like one of the most important things we have uh to come out of like for resilience or for like a therapy for quality of life so i wish we could leave a statement yeah to leave a statement for example it's like a primary source of history you know so i wish we had more moments throughout the year where art was really important but i'm glad we have this as well like at least you know and let's go to the second i'm gonna bring this we're gonna give some today to our chip and days okay another part of the gallery where we have some muy bien it's a look at now she sits in the property okay so this is another exhibition another part of the exhibition um this is another soldiers she's one of our most amazing artists and a woman she's the first to bring like all these this is palenques ambassador so have you heard about san brasilia yeah i've been there you've been there okay amazing i've never been i wish i had uh i've tried to but i haven't uh so yeah palenque san basilio is like the first free palenque in colombia is like where men is this artist came from there or they did no actually she had a lot of good friends from there she was working a lot in cartagena she had an apartment there and she got in touch with these women she was fascinated by these women that go on the beach because they have these huge things on their head with the fruits and an amazing sense of like you know so she was very impressed by them and she started making like friends and she became very close to them and so she devoted most of her art to these women and to bring them into the houses of you know high-class bogota people so it also created like a bridge between two cultures that were so separated became like a bound by beauty in a way so this um each of these sculptures has a name it's like a sculpture based on a person on a real person one of her friends close friends from san basilia palenque and at the end of her career because she sadly passed away a few years back but at the end of her career she devoted a lot to this which was like the bose of the traditional dress of this wow yeah i see it you have here you see so she was very interested by that because it's amazing they have amazing like this you can see you know it's like amazing styles that are worth like looking into you know and then i see this painting right here from that same gentleman exactly this is very nice because this is actually inspired by one of the most amazing spots that we have in colombia which is called park have you heard about this no so chili vicar is an amazing place that they found not long ago i mean it's been there forever but it was a little bit hidden because of armed conflict and a few years back carlos castano who used to be the minister of of well nature i don't remember the name right now he had to stop there by mistake and he realized this amazing place that has this has like huge walls with er with paintings that keeps keeps beco like there's even new paintings all the time but they don't know how they make them because you have to go down from very high altitudes like holding so if you go you'll see paintings yes who's who's painting them so the fact that there's new paintings and they don't know really where it's coming from it's obviously made by um communities that haven't been contacted are you serious yeah and the fact that they make these paintings is the most amazing thing because they have to these are huge walls so in order to paint on them you have to like do rappel basically and paint and they always wonder how they make it because it's really so has anybody look into it it's very important has anybody ever got in contact with the people the thing is or you don't want to lately not right now lately is very famous and people now hear about it and now know about it and everyone wants to go even me i would love to go so the government has been trying to keep it safe first of all from tourism because they don't want it to become like a bad tourism for the place second can can you hear that yeah that's her eating second because um they're doing this thing where they grow the agricultural frontier what they do is they burn so it's like apparently uh fire but once everything is burnt it's like agricultural a land and soil and this is going on right now and it's very sad and it's very scary is the fact that they found this place and they've been trying to keep it safe because that's the thing armed conflict which was horrible for our country has been pretty okay in keeping nature safe sadly now that this is like gone because of the peace treaty etc because it was mainly the farc that were keeping a lot of these places um protected so now that this is gone like there's a lot of places that are gonna be um vulnerable this is one of them and i last as i'm telling you right now as we speak they're taking territories and territories of a place that is like virgin and it's one of the most amazing well the fart when you say the fart was keeping it safe they weren't inadvertently it just they were there so that's why they were safe or the farc literally kept it safe i mean their stories for example i was doing a lot of documentaries on the on their on the forest and different places jungle et cetera and there's many places where there was an intention to keep things safe and obviously it was really bloody it was like if they caught you killing an endangered species they would like hung you or something like really horrible so people were very scared so it was safety but through you know through like correction i don't know and this is carlos salas this is an artist from bogota well from pitalito will actually and he is one of our most important abstract artists we were in miami in the inaudible in the north miami museum with an amazing exhibition then he went to white box in new york and we were chosen as one of the 10 best exhibitions during freeze art really and now we're going to china um well he's going to be in london actually in a solo show in sachi very soon and he's going to china as well for a big exhibition it's going to be amazing this is nail ospina this is also one of our very well-known artists he works these topics where he takes a the things that are like our our history you know a like the prey this is very imagine this is the hugo or the pelota is like the the player of ball and so this is an an old a sports from mayan a culture where they would have to put this ball through a very small hole and chicken pig two queen peaks or something yeah it's something like this and whoever one was sacrificed to the gods and like with all these bloody things that they have going on so what he does is take these very important things of our history and our backgrounds our culture and he mixes it with mickey mouse so it's obviously like a criticism because what he says is i bet you if i put a mickey mouse head on that then people are gonna pay attention to this and it happens it's the same as this this is from the south i don't know if you've been to this park it's called the it's in the south of colombia where they have these huge sculptures in in this kind of uh stone i don't remember the name right now so what he does is the same he takes exactly the same sculpture but he puts um mickey mouse on it and then people are going nuts this with the lights or even there yeah i mean waterfalls how much is your artwork here and do you guys um deliver can you set up the, yeah we deliver all around the world we were actually we did a few like we did a lot of sales last year apart from the pandemic and we were sending artworks to Australia to Canada to Europe many places uh we have a big range because we work with very well-known artists like Botero that can be really expensive I mean a huge sculpture but they like the ones you see in the plaza hotel can be worth around I don't know 5 million dollars I mean it's really expensive obviously the pieces that we work with are less expensive but are still very expensive but then we also have some of the younger artists so those can range between three hundred dollars and ten thousand dollars let's say so you have like a whole variety of parties if you're fully confident someone might purchase some art here and it the value will go up yeah that's what we usually do is we work with artists that we that we believe in that we know are serious people that are gonna be striving in their work so usually what you get when you see an artist that obviously has a talent and that is serious with his work is that he's gonna keep working so he's gonna be better every time it's a little bit like you you're gonna make more money every time and you're gonna be even better at what you do so what we try to do is find those artists in which we believe so yeah hopefully like anything you buy here is gonna be a more expensive unless something dramatic happens but that's usually the case we've seen a lot of artwork here and you know you are very interested in art but do you have art do you create yeah well i do create as well like my father he's an artist he keeps like things for the artworks that he's gonna make later in his life me on the other hand i'm a documentaries and i work with i do a lot of filming and a lot of get out of here get she never told me this now you're telling me this yeah you're serious yeah yeah we i met you and i mentioned that to you but you never told me you were as well and i was really happy to meet you because of that reason that's why i gave you my card and i was like come because i know if i was you i would be so happy to be able to show these weird places where no one gets to go because it's very like private and so yeah i've worked in documentaries most of my life actually i did like many social documentaries mainly uh so that's like my artistic side but obviously i'm very much into sales nowadays because like i sell art and that's the thing it's very important like art is amazing art is something that we all have access without paying which is amazing in wikipedia or in google everything we can access images this is a luxury that we didn't used to have but we have to keep in mind that art is also an asset and it's something that makes part of a market and there's artists that need to live from this so i guess like that's one of our approaches that makes a difference perhaps is that we know we're in the art world and we try to keep it as academic as we can but we also know we have to make money for these artists and that's what we like we really are like putting an effort into and we managed to do it pretty well like there's a lot of artists that we managed to work with and so that's important let me ask you a question what's that tree right there oh this is a very interesting tree that's the tree where the nuts that we give the squirrel are born this which we call coroso i don't know i don't know like what might be another name you can see them yeah these are okay like the classic chipotle well these are more rounded but it's like a type of knot so this grows in that street that tree is called photos or three so what's amazing is that the squirrels will go up like the squirrels will climb through all of these spikes they will climb this i thought this was like they put us here so you couldn't get in there it looks difficult to climb i guess the tree is doing his best it's doing its best in order to keep squirrels fire but it's not managing because they will just climb through that maybe you can look from here to the top and then they'll just climb to get some of these from the top so you can see squirrels most of the time in some of these um so what we do is sometimes we put some like other plants on top that they will just still climb and get their own climb yeah all right yeah but this is a beautiful beautiful tree actually nice took long to grow like this height okay and so the name of our gallery is ah fine art you can find us in the web it's www.ahfineart.com all right guys so what i'll do is i'll put their information in the description and that way if you want to come here get a tour or perhaps are interested in purchasing one of the pieces that we've seen here or if you want to feed the squirrel i will put all that information in the description so most definitely check them out especially if you're going to be visiting medellin because you're we're this is poblano right is this so a lot of people a lot of tourists stay here and they they're always going to go to that metro rail there's a metro around the corner so on your way to the metro you can stop here all right it won't it won't be inconvenient you go walking you stop let's go here and then oh metro okay cool we'll wait for you today all right cool after learning so much about columbia's art culture i wanted to see more so i took a trip out of town to guatepay to visit my friend binky who runs at bed and breakfast he agreed that he would take me under boat so i could see a relic for mold where he had security okay I see a green building over there that's what you're talking about of course yeah uh they call it the glasshouse that's where security was armed and dangerous obviously you know that maybe um and it's a trip because they had radios so when you had the federalists the police come in all FBI from the USA come in uh helicopters they would literally like notify him with radios and it's it's about I would say honey how many meters uh from here to uh to the house yeah three hundred meters solo his that was the glass half let's see some people security and then on the end at the end you can't see the winehouse and they would call and you know they will call him so he can you know obviously escape and get away but a lot of people don't you know push that you know and he used to have submarines oh my god so in this in this lagoon here so it was a lagoon at the time because I know that before they had it's a city here yeah was I like at that moment already yeah is that his home yeah that's right there baby looks blown up actually yeah all of a sudden what happened to this home they just closed it everyone thinks it's the police uh the police blew it up all of the states and homes but no yeah it was the cartel there's the cartel the enemy the Pepe yeah I heard about the Pepe today i'm gonna try to talk to you about a topic that people in medellin and myself we don't like to talk about because it's disgusting it's about the narco terrorists and about the mafia people and about the cali cartel the medellin cartel and pablo square a lot of people come to the to the city and they're going to go they want to visit or try to do a tour to visit those places where pablo lives where he was killed etc etc for us as paisas we don't like to talk about we hate to talk about and today finally it's going to happen something nice i'm going to tell you about that i went to el poglado today to the edificio monacon the monaco building that used to be owned by pablo escobar and his family in 1988 that particular building was almost destroyed by a bomb that was planted by the pepes the hitman from the cali cartel at that particular time the cali carter no i'm sorry the medellin cartel harry but pablo escobar was in a war against the cali cartel and the colombian government so in january and 1988 the cali cartel planted a car bomb in front of the monaco building in el poblado with 88 kilograms of dynamite this building was heavy duty very well very well constructed and very strong and survived the terrorist attack it was only damaged to the windows and glasses of the building so now they measure this the measure of the city and the city in general decided to demolish the building so tomorrow they're going to plant particular different kind of explosive devices on the building to bring the building down so today i went to the building to take some pictures and to take some films and tomorrow i'm planning to go there to see the demolition of the building by the explosives and we are very happy about that we are glad about that and when they destroy the building they measure on the city they are planning to construct a memorial and a little park it's good to remember that during the war with the colombian government and the city the medellin cartel headed by pablo escobar killed 46 thousand 612 people and 614 police officers were killed in that war so now you understand why we don't want to talk about it's part of the past medellin is in the transformation we are heading in a different direction and we don't want to talk about mafia and things like that you are welcome to use the videos that i gonna send you sons are with voiceover and some are with no voice so you decide whatever you want to take and post it in your youtube channel and tomorrow i'm planning to go to the campestry club in front of the monaco building to see you know when the building is going to come down after the explosive device are detonated all right so I wonder if she's married if she's thinking of me she has a mirror in her hand! 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