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Daniil Abcdanke's mural for the Smena public art festival
A new mural by Daniil Abcdanke has appeared in Kovdor in the Murmansk region, created for the Smena festival of monumental art. The artist was one of seven winners of the festival's open call, with a work connected to the history and visual image of the town.
Daniil turned to the very character of Kovdor, an industrial town in the north surrounded by natural landscape and tied to its mining and processing plant. The composition features recognisable details of local life: the quarry, the railway, the industrial infrastructure. Real images sit alongside freer, more symbolic motifs, turning the townscape into a space for associations.
The second season of Smena runs under the theme "In Progress" and brings together artists working with industrial towns and local stories. This year the festival covers 15 towns and settlements, with 24 artists taking part in the programme.













