Open-air Art Gallery - graffiti on walls and fences

The project for drawings on walls and fences of houses in the village of Staro Zhelezare is of the artist Ventsislav Piryankov. He lives and works in Poland and here is located his family house.

The first works are from 2015. The idea is the village to be used as a picturesque canvas and to become a work of art.

Piryankov and his wife Katarzyna, together with several of their students, painted on the village walls.

To the current year (2016) the drawings are already more than 40. There are depicted locals in the company of celebrities - politicians, artists, public figures and others.

Every villager has chosen the character who wants to be depicted with him.

Among the most famous celebrities are Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi, Angela Merkel, Lady Diana, Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth, Brigitte Bardot, Grigor Vachkov, Che Guevara, Patriarch Kirill of Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum of Dubai, King Boris III, Stalin and more.