Graffiti in Meshchansky District
I keep looking for new interesting places in Moscow. I'm very happy that many paths are not traversed yet and I can discover something new in Moscow streets every day. It is very useful, in my opinion, to study the city not by the Internet pictures, but by walking on foot many miles. So, for example, I've recently discovered Meshchansky District of Moscow near the metro station Suharevskaya, even though I've been living in Moscow for six years. I was surprised to very nice art works there. The graffiti were created by the art group "Zuk Club" at the festival "Stretenka Design Week" in September, 2010.
The sense of the pictures has remained unclear to me. Is it just a pile of objects and phenomena of the modern reality? Or a mess in heads of modern people? I think it's necessary to install explanatory signs near the buildings. I enjoy bright colors of the graffiti and that it makes the dull usual city view much more interesting and beautiful. Still, you will cudgel your brains trying to understand the sense of it.
Luckily, the art group "Zuk Clubs" explains it on the Internet page dedicated to these graffiti:
"Graphic design is a creative process undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience. Nowadays the graphic design becomes a more and more integrated profession uniting in its work difficult, multilevel subjects of visual reality and methods of various professional disciplines. But one of the most important tasks of the graphic design is to express an artistic figure with help of a form. The most simple forms, such as a circle, a square, a triangle, can directly influence on the audience. So the form of a triangle in this art work, the most active one, is like an embodiment of the graphic design in its main sense. The graffiti are a collage of many symbols and characters, taken from completely different sources, but in a strong compositional connection. In our "information times", when we can observe a full merging of different nations and cultures, designers reconsider visual aesthetics. Since the 17th century Stretenka District has been full of different small shops as a commercial and merchant region. The theme of cultural merging, expressed in the paintings, exactly reflects the emotional state in the history of this region."
So you always have something to think about :-)
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Address: 5, Pankratievsky Lane, cases 7 and 9.
Author of the post: prevedva