Slideshow: Delhi Street Art Festival makes its mark on the Indian capital
All photos by Bismillah Geelani. Hear/read his accompanying radio report.
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- A view of the Delhi Street Art Festival site, Asia’s largest dry port.
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- An astronaut, painted across several stacked shipping containers, stares into space.
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- A representation of a traditional Indian art form, the Gond Art, by Rakesh Kumar.
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- A mural on an abandoned cement plant inspired by and dedicated to rag pickers.
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- A wall painted with what the artist Daku calls “pollution ink.”
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- Calligraffiti on shipping containers.
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- Portrait of Iranian activist Farough Farukhzad by Iranian artist, Nafir.
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- An Indian goddess riding a dragon.
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- With this painting of Mysore Palace, Spanish artist Borondo tries to create what he describes as an alchemy of royalty and misery emphasizing the state of homelessness and widespread poverty.
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- Another portrait of Farough Farukhzad by Nafir.
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- The interiors of what Harsh Raman calls the temple of street art.
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- A view of the Delhi Street Art Festival site from outside.
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- Mexican artist Senkoe sees birds as a symbol of diversity, identity and freedom.
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- Japanese artist Suiko’s imagination of India’s national flower, the lotus, with his signature curved lines and Japanese characters. (Photo: Bismillah Geelani)
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- Indian artist Anpu’s depiction of motion through Lava Tree.
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- Amitabh Kumar’s mural named “Dead Dahlias” offers last glimpses of the city Delhi, which the artist believes is crumbling apart.
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- Depiction of traditional South Indian dance form Kathakali by Harsh Raman. (Photo: Bismillah Geelani)
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- Gaia at work on the containers.
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- Australian artist Reko Rennie used geometric patterns that represent his community the Kamilaroi, to create this piece called “Original Aboriginal”.
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- “We Love Delhi” – a wall jointly painted by Indian and foreign artists.
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- A colorful meteorite with an astronaut sitting on top of the wall, used as metaphor for someone who can see things from a different perspective.
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- Harsh Raman’s imagination of the god of street art.
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- The woman looking left in this mural by Nafir symbolizes her rebellion against patriarchal concept of womanhood.
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- Spanish artist Borondo interprets the concept of life and birth with this abstract mural.
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- This mural by Dwa Zeta from Poland stresses the need for women’s safety in Delhi. (Photo: Bismillah Geelani)
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- Calligraffiti – a combination of calligraphy and graffiti – by Niels Shoe Meulman from the Netherlands.
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- A mural alluding to the impacts of vehicular pollution.
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- Calligraffiti representation of the Delhi traffic.
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- Gaia’s mural on global warming. (Photo: Bismillah Geelani)
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- This mural called Vishvaroopa from Inkbrushnme is based on Indian mythology and depicts an all encompassing Omni form of Hindu god, Vishnu. (Photo: Bismillah Geelani)
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- “The revolution will be painted” underscores the rebellious currents that have always run through the graffiti art movement.
