Painters of Novgorod will talk about what the city says

URBAN B.O.L.T. (Big Very Personal Text) Exhibition of Contemporary Calligraphy opens in Velikiy Novgorod on May, 23rd.

The crew of Calligraphy for Everybody studio works under the leadership of the Novgorod painter, designer and writer Mikhail Danilov.

The exhibition will run within a new project that aims to reflect world experience in modern urban calligraphy, continuity of national schools and interconnection of cultures.

Chank Diesel, leading American painter and calligrapher, contemporary type designer, author of thousands of works in letters is the inspirer of the works presented at the exhibition.

The exhibition will feature works by Mikhail Danilov, Daria Sokolova, Irina Vasileva, Angelina Frolova and Andrey Gavrushkin.

«We show that the city speaks through advertisement. Someone decided to write something and hang it up on a board and someone else read it. So, the advertisement is not actually a conversation, it is a bunch of short messages. So, it turns out that a response is unnecessary. It is a kind of monologue of the city. It is all just talk. We called the exhibition URBAN B.O.L.T. („Urban talk“), than we came up with a description: big very personal text,» — Daria Sokolova, one of the exhibition organizers told Pryamaya Rech, online edition.

The exhibition will open in the centre of contemporary art on May 23rd at 7 pm.

Painters of Novgorod will talk about what the city says

Source: www.pryamayarech.ru