Mexico's New Wave of Mural Painters Promote Updated Real and Virtual Artworks Tim Patterson - The Associated Press
go to original September 11, 2015

Street artists Jenaro de Rosenzweig, left, and Alejandro Revilla pose for a portrait behind a restaurant's window covered with a mural by artist Francisco Munoz, signed with his artist's name below, in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico's mural art is getting a modern makeover.

Former graffiti taggers and graphic designers have joined together in a cooperative called "Street Art Chilango," painting walls with popular Star Wars characters and hyping their work on social media.

Founded in March 2013 by Jenaro de Rosenzweig and Alejandro Revilla, the group's name uses the slang term 'chilango' for things from Mexico City.

And their murals aren't only on brick-and-mortar walls.

Rosenzweig, who goes by his artist name Jenaro, vigorously promotes the team's artworks on social networks and the group's website, streetartchilango.com. The group has garnered more than 165,000 "likes" on Facebook, 72,000 followers on Instagram, and 9,000 followers on Twitter.

"We have the muscle of the social network and the brains to put the artists to work," said Jenaro.

In April 2013, he launched the hashtag "#streetartchilango" so that anyone using Instagram could plot street art locations on the site's interactive Google map.

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