Blue Pencil – street artist and tactical urbanist engaged in textual street art and artistic interventions in the urban environment. Conceptual artist too.
The author's style is laconic and witty inscriptions in public spaces. BP comments on various events, situations, or states, offering new ways to perceive them.
BP practices:
- Artistic research of space and verbalization of place imagery
- Tactical and textual street art
- Mapping of landscape and scenery written in words
- Visual anthropology
- Visual poetry, conceptual art and blackout
- Notes on the surroundings
Blue Pencil's statements explore the boundaries of art, cultural activism, tactical urbanism, poetry and language games.
The Blue Pencil’s font is easily recognizable - rectangular, vertically elongated letters in blue.
The inscriptions can be found in Nizhny Novgorod, Kulebaki, Berlin, Tehran, Amsterdam, Kovrov, Prague, Moscow, Kas, Vladivostok, St. Petersburg, Suzdal, Tomsk, Shiraz, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Antwerp, Veliky Novgorod, Arzamas, Kazan and other cities.
Blue Pencil treats space with care. This is not an act of vandalism.