Stenograffia is an international graffiti festival held annually in Yekaterinburg the first weekend in July.[1][2] In the summer of 2010 graffiti on the theme "Europe and Asia: the clash of opposites" appeared in the subways, on quay slabs, yards, and on buildings in the Ural capital. The theme of Stenograffia 2011 was "Images of Happiness". In July 2012 artists from around the world presented their vision of Yekaterinburg using the theme "Global Intelligence".[3]
Description
editThe first festival gathered artists from 25 cities and three countries. It included artists from Omsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Nizhny and Novgorod, and from (Spain and Germany. The gathering occasioned a large-scale painting of urban surfaces.
Notable works
edit- Saint Catherine mural in Yekaterinburg:[4][5]
- "Suprematic cross" by Pokras Lampas[6]
- Canned food paintings:
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References
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- ^ "'Everyone around is snoring, but Yekaterinburg has awakened' when the Urals' largest city declared itself Russia's street art capital, everyone laughed. Then it became the truth".
- ^ «The purpose of walls is to divide, but now there are walls that bring people together» — Rossotrudnichestvo, 3.03.2022
- ^ "Фестиваль уличного искусства и граффити «Стенограффия» как форма репрезентации современного искусства". Человек В Мире Культуры (2): 18–22. 2016.
- ^ https://soc.urfu.ru/ru/index/news/?news=48993&cHash=ebd51ee458273801712b1716479e4dae
- ^ "В Екатеринбурге появился арт-объект покровительницы города — святой Екатерины | Областная газета".
- ^ "Pokras Lampas pays tribute to avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich, Stenograffia Street Art Festival 2019". 21 July 2019.