Has street art in the city become the vanguard of a political class? WHAT's On decided to take a walk around Mumbai's traffic signals to find out
Has street art in the city become the vanguard of a political class? WHAT's On decided to take a walk around Mumbai's traffic signals to find out
With the unveiling of a sculpture of a woman holding a puja thali, at a traffic island near Sena Bhavan, yesterday, Mayor Shubha Raul is on a roll to beautify traffic islands across Mumbai, with sculptures that reflect the social milieu of the area around them.
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The project took off in June last year, when she unveiled the sculpture of a kavadvala (vegetable vendor) at the chaotic Plaza Cinema traffic signal at Dadar. She followed it up with a Maharashtrian woman watering a tulsi plant at the Hindu Colony signal. After the multi-coloured, graphic-stained animal tableux outside Churchgate Station got a thumbs down from Mumbai's artist community, we are wondering how the city will receive a string of hand-painted, fibre sculptures that are far from aesthetic, and part of Raul's "look good" agenda to help "spruce up traffic islands with a local flavour and message".
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