Pokras Lampas - Kazan Rooftop Calligraphy

Long time no Pokras. It’s been a while since our last encounter, and I am glad to cover his new giant piece again.

Pokras Lampas writes cities into existence — this time, in two languages at once.

The calligraphy artist has spent years scaling up letterforms to architectural proportions, but the rooftop of Barkli DAN Residence demanded something more than spectacle. Here, Russian and Tatar interweave across 177 square metres — three concepts, six words, two languages — each stroke a negotiation between heritage and horizon.

Three months of preparation, 14 days of painting. A 15-metre circle of contemporary Cyrillic calligraphy, read best from above — a message written for the sky, or perhaps for the city looking back at itself.

Artist: Pokras Lampas

Location: Kazan, Tatarstan

Project: Barkli DAN Residence rooftop mural

The ARTphabet by CESS

César Cid turns the alphabet into a gallery of borrowed worlds.

The Madrid-based 3D artist, working as CESS Studio, has built The Artphabet, a complete set of 26 letters, each a digital sculpture channelling the visual universe of a different celebrated artist. Mondrian's rigid geometry, Dalí's melting surrealism, Basquiat's raw urgency, and Kusama's infinite dots.

What makes the project sing is Cid's refusal to simply texture a letter with someone else's style. Each character becomes a genuine object — form, colour, and material all transformed to inhabit that artist's world completely. The letter is merely the armature; the sculpture is the homage.

Salvador Dali