{"id":267136,"date":"2020-01-03T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=267136"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:50:10","slug":"why-does-this-muscovite-artist-make-religious-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/why-does-this-muscovite-artist-make-religious-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does this Muscovite artist make religious graffiti?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His creations appear in traditional places \u2014 on the walls of apartment blocks and under bridges, but they depict either Jesus or the Virgin Mary.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A huge graffiti face of Jesus Christ appeared in Moscow in late October. It wasn\u2019t the first and won’t be the last. It was painted on a bridge bearing by 28-year-old Alexander Tsypkov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The artist had to stand on a stepladder to complete the work, which reaches almost five meters high.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe first such graffiti I did with a few classmates back in the art institute, about five years ago,\u201d Alexander told Russia Beyond. The students were on a practical assignment in Rostov Veliky, where they decided to visit abandoned churches and paint inside them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Russia there are lots of neglected architectural monuments. There are thousands of them, everyone\u2019s forgotten about them and they\u2019re literally falling to pieces. So we went there to raise awareness,\u201d says the artist.<\/p>\n