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DIMA GRED in Moscow: Minimal graffiti art radical
The Russian artist based in Moscow DIMA GRED (born 1990) started to paint in the streets in 2003. At that time he was bombing GRED in his neighborhood before going all city. Most of the time he painted alone, but also with his friends forming the BRS crew. His lettering evolved from semi wild style to block letter style, mostly in two colors, announcing his later minimalist style with rectangular forms and the use of only one color. After some years’ activity, GRED got arrested and stopped painting between 2008 and 2010.In 2012, he graduated from the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Moscow, studies that had no influence on his work according to him. However at that time he felt the urge to paint in the streets again, but with a new style. His GRED pieces of that time are made with black angular letters, slightly bent to the right, the letters are interlaced or placed upside down, slightly abstracted, they are elegant as a designed large-scale logo which seems to float on concrete walls.
Tired of writing his name and lettering, DIMA GRED started to develop abstract pieces in 2014 and will only use the spray can color black mat from then on for all of his works. The color black has many qualities that the artist knows how to apply for his pieces: it is a serious color, powerful, impenetrable and mysterious, but also elegant and pure. Before 2015, the Russian writer was spraying his straight lines by hand before starting to use tape. The 5 mm thick tape helps him until today to work much faster, defining the shapes even more clearly and using the spray can only for the fill in.
Occupying urban and rural spaces with black minimalistic forms
DIMA GRED likes to place his pieces in the city, like on rooftops or small concrete constructions, as well as on construction sites and in abandoned places around Moscow or This work proposes a necessary dialogue between colors that build it, make a direct relationship with the medium itself, question the empty space and the use of compositional resources. Piece is able to find it at the Meridian House of Culture, Moscow. An abstraction wall painting with hidden writer's name inside The Spanish artist works often depicts uncommon scenes that challenge stereotypes of women and social stigmas. Artists: Alexey Luka and Ekta Ekta Italian artist Never 2501's works are visually stunning, diving head first into the essence of line art through his use of monochromatic color schemes that emphasize his technique. Workshop for kids and their parents in special artist techniques based on a similar constructive arrangement. Meeting of Different Styles & Hall of FameBiennale Hunting for Street Art in Moscow is one way to get off the beaten track and see more of the ‘real’ city away from the tourist sights. As a fan of street art, and someone who enjoys finding local haunts, I hopped on the internet to find street art in Moscow. When I discovered that Australian Street Artist, Fintan Magee had painted a piece a bit out of the city, I decided to find that work first. Then I found that there was a street art project in an otherwise unwelcoming group of Soviet Era flats and decided to visit that suburb too. Both places were easily accessible by metro, so I set off for the nearest metro station. Fintan Magee painted “The Messenger” in 2014 as part of a Street Art Festival. It depicts a woman tossing a message in a bottle into the water at her feet. Having seen Fintan Magee’s work in Sydney and in Melbourne, I looked forward to seeing more of his distinctive style in Moscow. Alighting at Trubnaya station (Line 10), I was delighted to find this station (not on the list of must-see Moscow Metro stations) decorated with brightly coloured glass panels depicting Russian Cities. I took some time to enjoy the station artworks before going in search of “The Messenger”. Armed with an address for the Artwork (Rozhdestvenka 23/5) and a photograph of the piece with a yellow and white church in the background, I set off. Perhaps it was me not paying attention or maybe I didn’t understand the numbering system, but I walked up and down what I thought was Rozhdestvenka and into little side alleys with no luck. Asking locals if they knew either the artwork or the address didn’t get me anywhere. People just shrugged or shook their heads. It seemed to me that locals who live in the area walk the same route every day from their home to the metro and back again without taking note of or knowing much about their surroundings. Finally, a young m By Alice Pfeiffer MOSCOW — From the Jean-Michel Basquiat show opening on Friday at the Muse?e d’Art Moderne in Paris, to the street art retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in April, highbrow institutions in the West are opening their doors to graffiti art. Now Moscow is promoting the urban art form as well. The city is increasingly becoming a stage for local and international graffiti artists — creating a dialogue within the community, and highlighting the difficulties of surviving as a street artist in contemporary Russia.Artmossphere: street art in Moscow
The color distribution has been generated to have a greater importance than the morphology of the piece, the main element considered is the total area that acts as a support and its quantitative relationship of each color. The composition is based on generating a optical harmonic balance to make it relative to the environment in which the mural is. We can see basic geometry has been used as the circle, the scalene triangle and other allusions to gestural strokes.Australian Street Artist Fintan Magee
Walking the Streets around Trubnaya
Graffiti Art Earns New Respect in Moscow
“It is especially tough to be a graffiti artist in Russia,” said Oxana Bondarenko, a curator who specializes in street art and lives in Paris and Moscow. “The state invests millions of rubles in hunting down graffiti artists and painting over the works.”
According to Sergey Glandin, a lawyer in Moscow, there is no law specifically regulating street art, but those caught making graffiti can be penalized under the criminal code. In most cases, this means an arrest and a warning.
Those seeking to make art and not to vandalize, however, are starting to find more outlets for their creative energy. “It’s about time we respect the value of their work,” Ms. Bondarenko said.
One early proponent of street art in Moscow was the Street Kit Gallery, which has been operating there since 2008. The gallery created a Web site that allows Russian and international artists to show and sell work online and organizes nomadic events in galleries, pop-up spaces and streets all over the capital.
“Our streets are a blank piece of paper,” said Sabina Chagina, the gallery’s founder. “It is now becoming easier to organize drawings and art on some streets,” and artists are now slowly being given legal permission to paint on certain walls, she added.
The gallery is working on a large event called “Flow Masters,” to take place next summer, that will include indoor and outdoor arts and performances. Fr