These Bengaluru artists are painting to get people walking
Live MintEvery time he visited Bengaluru, her father would carry back home sampige flowers for her mother, recalls artist Chandana BV, who grew up in Mangaluru. “It made her smile,” says Chandana, one of the 13 artists who are part of Malleshwaram Hogona, or Let’s go to Malleshwaram, the street art project underway in this ancient locality of Bengaluru. “The pitch was to create a narrative street where people would start walking because they want to go see the murals,” says Yash Bhandari, Creative Lead, Geechu Galu, the artists’ collective that is executing the project. “It increases ownership,” she says, adding that creating a mini art district in Malleshwaram was likely to make people more comfortable about stepping out, exploring and exploring the area. “I wanted to create a graphic atmosphere that is responding to a quiet, lost corner, within a quiet, lost corner,” he says, “a little island within the Malleshwaram island.” An artwork from the 'Malleshwaram Hogona' project in Bengaluru.
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