The Voronezh Art Scene

In the upside of digital voyuerism, I am happy to share with a sampling of burgeoning artistic talent of Voronoezh. Hopefully, this post can counterbalance the moody-historical reflections of the last post.


Here, in a happy, wealthy verisimilitude of N. Korea, a little creativity goes a long way. While graffiti to some might represent a culture of neglect and vandalism, there is also the posibility of semi-illegal street art to enliven a community. The pervasive Soviet grey benefits greatly from even a little creative license and a broader color palate. And some of the designes, approach something quite sublime and affecting. All the artists are anonymous, but are (I hope) willing to spread their already generous public display to the Internet as a whole. I hope you enjoy.

Graffiti v. Street Art.


The taxonomy should be self-evident, but I'm going to classify misspelled scriblings; "F@KING LIVE!!!"


...and the pathetic (Leyna, Forgive Me...I want to be with you) VSPU, Student Cafeteria Wall) as graffiti.

Tagging
The creative tag John Hancock's prove just opaque when written in Cyrillic charecters. All the same, a sometimes beautiful bridge between graffiti and street.

Some Modest,


Some colorful,


Some rather impressive




The adorable-est bear in the world, next to his tag, KOMA.

Street/Wall Art


Flowing Witch Hair of Nikitinskaya


Ballon Paratrooper, outside the Imperia Dance Studio.



Man with a guitar, thinking about a bird cage.


The entrepenurial street-artist, benefiting from an advertising deal with a local internet company.


The dormitory of Voronezh State Pedagogical University. Street/concrete-wall-art proves to be an effective way of combating the provincial ennui of student life.


Celebrating the town's history: Peter the Great built the first ships of the Russian fleet here in Voronezh in 1695.


Gorillaz-like graphic style.


...with wizard hats.


Despite the glare, I can tell you that this is most-definetly the Silver Surfer, making a suprising comeback to the F.S.U., after his inhospitable greeting over Mosocw in Silver Surfer #1.


Continuing the tradition of Russian Futurism, particularly Mayakovsky's floating cities drawings.


Tag or Cloud City?


The Thinker's more intense cousin.

Some of the work near the VSPU Dormitory approaches the sublime.




I wasn't able to capture how beautifully these two designs flow together.




The most haunting image I've found, around the block from the VSPU's cafeteria.