A street art fete

The city is all geared up to host a first of its kind multi-location street art festival from November 1 to 12. The event will be conducted by St+art India Foundation in collaboration with Art@Telangana and Kalakriti Art Gallery.

Recently, an interactive session, about the street art, was conducted at Pariyatak Bhavan, Begumpet in this regard. Papa Rao, trustee of Art@Telangana and city-based artist Hanif Kureshi interacted with the audience and informed about the plans of the festival.

Speaking on the occasion Papa Rao said: “As of now we have graffiti artists Hanif Kureshi and Julia, who hails from Italy, on board. St+art Foundation will select 12 artists from Telangana and four artists from across the nation for the festival.”

“Makta and People’s Plaza near Necklace Road, have been selected for the street art as of now. We are also conducting a Kala Mela from November 4-6. Young talents can showcase their art in the mela. We are also putting up a clear guideline for participation in Kala Mela,” he added.

Hanif Kureshi said, “The aim of the foundation is to make art accessible to a wide audience. We will bring the artistic magic to Hyderabad.”Prshant Lahoti, owner of Kalakriti Art Gallery said: “It took six months to plan this project.

In Hyderabad, there are only a handful of artists, who create street art and that isn’t enough to put Hyderabad on the map of art. So this festival will hopefully bring out the best in the artists here. Telangana artists can send in their work to the organisers and based on their assortment they will get chosen for the exhibition.”

Previously St+art India Foundation has executed massive street art projects in Mumbai and Delhi. They have made a mural of Dadasaheb Phalke which was 120-ft by 150-ft, in Mumbai and a 6,080 sq ft mural of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Delhi.