Citizens can turn Vladivostok into the world capital of street art

The last few years in Vladivostok there is a lot of urban patterns. Artists from different groups paint the retaining walls, and create a variety of other artistic works. Foranswers about the future of street art Vladivostok Primorya24 reporter asked the executive director of the studio of monumental art "33 +1" Alexander Boyko.

Recently, the head of the city commissioned to decorate one of the transitions on Youth. That there will be and who will undertake this work?

To date, one of the Youth transition has already painted, and we did it with Cyril who - under the concept of urbancamouflage. It is now planned that the second transition at the top of the Youth will be used to sketch paintings of Vladimir Pogrebnyak, Vladivostok known artist. While this is only a plan, and I think that during the summer it will still be implemented.

How to choose the place for painting, as selected artists?

There is no universal approach - select the places where it would be appropriate to place the painting. Alsoapart from its aesthetic function, design is more anti-vandal function. As has been the practice has shown in recent years - the walls decorated with mosaics, murals, reliefs, or other pieces of art, almost do not suffer from graffitti and leaflets with ads.

It is said that the Vladivostok team of artists "tagged" in New York, and for the exchange of celebrity is coming to us from the United States. What happened and who will come to us?

Yes, it ishad a team of "Concrete Jungle", these are our friends - Felix and Vadim. They drew a year ago in New York - they were invited by the program - and this year, expect that we will come to the American painter spectrum. He will be involved in drawing graffiti on a wall at Okatova, 18 and may take part in painting more pairs of objects. To date, planned to paint the facade of a building in Svetlanskaya and anything else. Also scheduled several lectures and conducting curatorial project with Kendel Henry, with whom they come together.

Tell us about the festival graffiti.

To reduce graffiti aggression in the past, it was decided to create in a few walls of graffiti. The term "graffiti-aggression" I did not use to specify that all graffiti aggressive and senseless, and emphasize its relevance and being wanted. This is the same kind of art, like everything else, such as mosaics and murals in the temples. But graffiti is under a certain other cultural background. Here it is important to share - people want to paint, to stand out, to say something about myself, but since there are no legal sites, all they do - is illegal, and because they had not been supported, they enter into a confrontation. I think it's wrong, are exhausted way, and should be given greater legal walls, in the relevant field. In addition, these "webs" to be comfortable, so that everyone can practice them without fear, because in the future of these people can grow up artists.

In early May, we will prepare the wall for 700 square meters, for which the background sketch made our Vladivostok graffiti artist Cyril Kryuchkov. Now he is engaged in monumental art, he has his own style - it makes the abstract color compositions. Two of his works can be seen at the entrance to the city in the 14-km mark, the following appears on the Okatova. After that, the city will be invited graffiti artists, and negotiations are ongoing to come out and show their faces. After all, even when the festival is held in the square, the majority do not show their faces. However, it already looks like a farce because no one will catch them or something to pursue, and even more so on a legal wall.

Can you name the places of Vladivostok, requiring jewelry?

In the city of any retaining wall requires some decisions. Residents of nearby houses can safely call yourself an artist or paint the walls. Preferably, of course, that they work with the professionals, even at the stage of creating a sketch that then we have not received disproportionate Luntik, or curves of the wolf and the hare, "Well, wait a minute", that just usually turns out. If residents will exercise this initiative, we will live in the most beautiful city on earth, and for three years, will become the capital of street art in the world. Now in Vladivostok done a lot of projects on the initiative of the mayor and the common people, and now it starts to connect to the business.

Recently, the head of the city pays a lot of attention to street art, how do you feel about this?

I do all such initiatives take very positively. After all, as it turns out - this whole process is divided into several stages. The first - the creation of precedents. If we recall Vladivostok 5 years ago, no painting was not, and when a few years later there was a need in the painting, it was important to the quality and quantity. Then began to think about the appropriateness of a particular painting. If we recall the figures, which were 2 years ago, many of them have changed. This all happens because the period of experimentation is - people choose what they like, and we know what the authors of the administration are willing to work.

What are your plans for the future?

We are working on the concept art image of the city, and while going to work in this direction. In the future I would like to extend this concept to the whole Primorye. But then there are all roads are open, and you can not just think, but also to establish mechanisms, infrastructure, and realize all the things that we had planned. Because now is the trend, and we are ahead of the trend. For example, we advised Muscovites, last year we were in Togliatti, in Kazan is a lot of work in Yekaterinburg.