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Significant Detail Painted Over “Friendship” With Moscow Mural In Minsk

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Significant Detail Painted Over “Friendship” With Moscow Mural In Minsk

Unknown artists painted a barbed wire on the mural dedicated to the friendship between Minsk and Moscow, on a multi-storeyed building in Mahileuskaya Street, 32.

Minsk residents spotted a new detail in the flower-chain of chamomiles and cornflowers – the barbed wire. Photographer Egor Budgawl sent the pictures to the tut.by editor’s office. It remains unknown who repainted the mural.

Leader of the street-artists group “Signal” Aleh Larychau has told Radio Liberty that the “corrections” were made in the morning on October 23 with the help of a lift platform. The group has not revealed the author yet. Larychau says, the author has input the following message into his work: “If the state takes on the street-art, in must learn the rules of the game”.

The “Signal” group delivered the message of the anonymous author to Radio Liberty:

“There is nothing I enjoy better than telling the concept of yet another work of mine. However, in this case, I would refrain from doing so. Let the freedom of interpretations of this gesture be unlimited and full, I don’t want to limit it with any statements of mine. If they like the version worded above – let it be so, I do not object, there is definitely almost as much non-freedom as freedom here.”

We remind, Russian artist Artur Kashak presented his mural on one of Minsk multi-storeyed buildings back in June. This became a sort of a gift to the Moscow Day in Minsk. Minsk residents reacted to the mural in different ways back then. The author of the graffiti said that he had spent about 300 spray paints on it and this work was the largest he ever had at that moment.

The municipal authorities of Minsk informed then that the boy in the mural symbolized Minsk, and the girl – Moscow. These cities’ symbols are painted on their shirts. The work was done upon the initiative of the representation of the city of Moscow.

This is how the mural used to look:

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