The portrait of Daniil Kharms on Mayakovsky Street in St. Petersburg will be replaced with a light projection

Residents and public figures who defended the graffiti decided to reach an amicable agreement with the administration of the Central District, which has not yet been officially concluded, but will be signed soon between the HOA and the district authorities, the documents are now in the process of being prepared. After the signing of the Kharms agreement, the wall will be painted over.

As one of the most active defenders of graffiti, Daniil Petrov, who lives in the apartment where Kharms once lived, and a descendant of a friend of the poet and art critic Vsevolod Petrov, told a Rosbalt correspondent, it became clear that changing the city law for the sake of preserving graffiti will make it possible to legalize all graffiti on the walls of houses. Then the walls and firewalls of the city would be exposed.

Daniil Petrov said that the head of the faction of the United Russia party in the Legislative Assembly of the city Pavel Krupnik, who proposed the idea of ​​a projection, was involved in the graffiti story. In 2021, the project was launched by St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise “Lensvet” together with the KGA – portraits of prominent people and projections of paintings appear on the firewalls of houses.

“Everything spun very quickly,” said Daniil Petrov. “There will be a trial run tonight.” Petrov himself believes that it is better if the projection does not repeat the photo, but the graffiti of street artists.

Yaroslav Kostrov, the leader of the Central District for a Comfortable Environment public movement, told Rosbalt that he personally opposes painting walls, but supported the residents, as this is the task of the movement. “If the residents have chosen this option – projection – then this is their choice,” Kostrov said.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, who also put a lot of effort into protecting graffiti, told Rosbalt that he still considers it necessary to change the rules for improvement: “The projection is visible at night, and graffiti, which has become one of the city symbols over the years, is all day long.

“This is better than being painted over, but I will insist that the regulations be changed,” the deputy said. – It is clear that the image of the image is different, and no one is in favor of disfiguring buildings, but if a commission of competent persons recognized that this is a work of art, then it must be preserved.

Recall that the portrait of Daniil Kharms, which appeared in the house number 11 on the street. Mayakovsky in 2016, became the subject of litigation. In support of preserving the image, the previous governor of the city, Georgy Poltavchenko, the director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg and many other organizations and residents of the city spoke out. Meanwhile, in the spring of 2021, the administration of the Central District filed a lawsuit against the management company to paint over the graffiti, and won the case in October.