"Hecho en Casa" is happening now in Chile

A robot with a height of 20 meters and ten fried eggs huge laying on the sidewalk are just a few of the artistic performances that invaded Santiago de Chile, during the famous festival of urban art "Hecho en Casa" (Homemade), held this week in the Chilean capital, EFE reports.

The purpose of the festival, which reached its fourth edition this year, is to boost cultural tourism in the country and to highlight the art destinations in the metropolitan region. More, the urban art festival breaks the monotony of urban life.

'Crate Man', a robot of 20 meters high and seven wide, is a creative collective work of art of the Australian Cornelius Brown movement, which can be admired since Monday near the central tower Torre Entel. The robot which already was exposed in some of the emblematic places of Australia, such as Adelaide and Byron Bay park, arrived at Santiago as a representative of urban art that was developed in the last decade in Melbourne as a manifesto against homogeneity and proposing an alternative reality.

Near the iconic tower in Plaza Baquedano tourists and locals can admire 'Art-Eggccident', an art installation consisting of ten plastic fried eggs, each 3 meters wide and 1.5 meters high, covering an area of 144 square meters in Plaza Italia. The author, the Dutch artist Henk Hofstra, is known for creating large-scale urban installations such as 'The blue road', that wanted to create an alternative urban river in the center of Drachten Netherlands. Many other works will invade downtown Santiago, as well as a 3D painting of German artist Edgar Müller. On November 12 will be exhibited on the esplanade in front of the Museum of Fine Arts the 'Epicentro luminoso' work of art inspired by 8.8 degrees earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile on 27 February 2010.