After successful runs in Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru, the street art festival is coming back to the Maximum City.
Contemporary art has undergone a perceptional makeover over the years—courtesy a group of socially responsible youth who felt the need to give back to their cities a sense of creativity and imagination.
St+art India, a non-profit organization, has been at the forefront of this artistic revolution. Since 2014, this group has been adding colour and creativity to the mostly barren walls of cities across the country.
It wasn’t easy getting the initiative off the ground initially because the graffiti culture had a rather negative connotation attached to it.
But that did not stop the team from taking the movement ahead. They had one aim: to change the mindset of people’s outlook of public spaces as being sterile or non-interactive structures.
Starting from late October, all the way up to December 30, 2017 the second edition of St+art Mumbai, which is supported by Asian Paints, will bring together over 30 Indian and international artists to paint the town red, literally.
Some of the Indian designers who will be participating in the event include Sameer Kulavoor, Shilo Shiv Suleman, Manish Arora, and Sameep Padora, among others.
This year, the street art initiative will reflect upon the nature and DNA of Mumbai through the lens of site-specific projects at some of the city’s important landmarks.
While Dharavi and Sassoon Dock will be the main focus for various art interventions—colourful murals, installations and workshops—there will also be three other special projects at Churchgate Station, Jindal Mansion, and the Western Railways.
For more information on the schedule, please visit the St+art India website.
Source : https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/start-india-mumbai-festival-2017/
