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R e f e r e n c e p o i n t Press release Contemporary art gallery "OkNo" presents the exhibition of graffiti 80. Reverse counting Graffiti is the alternative culture that has arisen in the beginning of 1970th as a form of the protest of young people from industrial surburbs of American megalopolises. Nowadays these 'wall works' began one of kinds of arts and have kept their place in museums and galleries of contemporary art. The original and own "classical" styles and directions were generated in graffiti for more than thirty years of its existence. In Chelyabinsk the first graffiti drawings have appeared in 1990th. Some teams and solitary writers work in city today. FK 174 (BATIS, DIXON) -- perhaps one of the most artistically distinct, which interestingly works in all styles of graffiti. BATIS is just one of Chelyabinsk writers, successfully participating in the Russian competitions of graffiti. In May FK 174 will become a participant of the Russian festival "Coffee grinder - 2008". Artworks in Bubble, 3D, CharaÓter styles, and also sticker and sketch ("graffiti on paper") of small sizes, which are executed on a cardboard and on plastic will be demonstrate on the exposition "80. Reverse counting". Working time: Admission free. The gallery address: 79A, Sonya Krivaya St. OkNo Gallery in Internet: http://www.oknogallery.ru/ Art Director -- Svetlana Shlyapnikova |