The Guild Gallery on Arthur Bunder Road has the air of an artistic crime scene. With its new installation of graffiti by artists both new and experienced, the walls are luridly lit up with red blobs ("I used up more than forty lipsticks for this," artist Vishal Dar informs), vivid collages and framed slogans, both inspirational and slightly puzzling. Art is even underfoot, with a design of white dots carpeting the gallery entrance. But the gallery is strangely uninhabited; behind the locked door, only a few artists meander and a photographer shoots the art from unexpected angles.
Wholesale Chloe Handbags Replica HandbagsI think therefore graffiti..., an exhibition which will run till September 8, was the brainchild of The Guild's art director, Shalini Sawhney. She believes that this art form hasn't received enough audience attention or creative energy. Closely resembling the Wall Project which transformed decrepit walls through eye-catching visuals, this is an exhibition worth catching. Ebel Watches One wall in the gallery is just for the enjoyment of the viewers - a collaborative art piece in process, for one and all to express their creativity. "The public at large tends to think of graffiti as an anarchic form of rebellion or a random act of cheap vandalism," says artist Apnavi Thacker. "It is neither. Graffiti has a structure and a set of rules that are not to be transgressed."
Sawhney gestures to one of the exhibits, a white sheet with dark threads running haphazardly through it - an artist's depiction of the 'graffiti' on a wall outside her home. Through the threads is visible the classic declaration - I Love Pooja. "Indian graffiti!" says Sawhney, "Indians by and large can't afford spray paint, so we etch and scratch out the words we want the world to know."
But isn't graffiti kind of pointless in a locked room? "No I don't think so," says Sawhney. "Grafitti is a part of an interdisciplinary approach that The Guild has taken up." Artist Rakhi Peswani decided to reunite graffiti with its home by carrying the canvas out on the road and leaving it there with a few cans of paint. The Fake Cartier Watches result is somewhat incomprehensible, but the fun is visible in the several coats of colour that now sit in a corner of the gallery.
"The canvas we left on the road disappeared in the middle of the night," Sawhney admits later. Why would someone take it? "I presume that it ended up as a roof for someone's home," she muses. "Rather a good ending for the art."
Credit:Apoorva Dutt
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