loro coirón

When I went to Valparaíso a few weeks ago I spotted a market stall selling postcards, posters, and little prints and the like. I fell in love with one, an interesting take on Valparaíso's lively cerros; in real life they are full of vividly painted houses, but this version was just so lovely and the detail really caught my eye. The day after when I was there with Daisy's old flatmate Ines, I bought it.

Then, we went and had lunch at a place I'd spotted the day before which looked cool [el desayunador], and when we walked in saw a huge mural clearly done by the same artist. Again, the detail was just amazing; it seemed you could stare at it for hours and still not see everything there was to see.

[a screen shot from their website of it being put up]

The artist, Loro Coirón, is a Frenchman who has lived in Valparaíso for the last 16 years now, and seems to have become enamoured with the city, using it as the subject for most of his print work.

I absolutely love his style, and will be keeping my eyes open for prints of his work in Valpo.

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