Running City Moscow 2015

Savvinskaya nab., 27  

55.731104, 37.558474 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Gable façade overlooking M. Savvinskiy per.

Number of people depicted on the wall

Detailed answer

Answer: 2

2

Historical background

A portrait of German writer Herman Hesse has been literally engraved on the wall of a dilapidated house in Savvinskaya naberezhnaya. The author, Alexandre Farto, a London-based artist originally from Portugal, creates his pictures with the help of a hammer and an electric drill. “Farto’s work is a great example of an unconventional approach to street art. His experience can help young Russian artists motivate themselves for continued development, constant creative searching, trying something new,” said Ivan Panteleev, curator of the Moscow Graffiti Festival. When he came up with this technique, Mr. Farto was met with public bewilderment: creating pictures with a drill, a hammer and a chisel was not a common sight. There are no other buildings in Moscow with graffiti in this technique.

Present in routes of categories Lion & Unicorn