At the India Habitat Centre, a deconstructed analog camera attached to hanging strings got people curious too. Their answers lay in a nearby art gallery.
For the creators of these artworks, it's a satisfying thing to see people getting curious. There's a huge difference between holding an exhibition in the confines of an art gallery with only patrons around and putting up artworks at a public place—the latter give a certain character to the urban landscape.
Ask Achia Anzi (33) about public art and the creator of the metal birds tells you that it's a historical concept. "The Renaissance masterpiece, David by Michelangelo, was initially placed at a public square in Florence. That was also public art. The beautiful sculptures on Indian temples are also public art. But for sometime, art became restricted to galleries and homes, so contemporary artists are trying to get it into public domain once again through these kind of installations," says the Israel-born artist, who has been living in India for a decade now and is a visiting professor of Hebrew at JNU.
He has named his work after a poem by noted Zionist poet Hayim Nahman Bialik—'To the Bird'. Anzi summarizes his work with a few lines from the poem: "Peaceful be your return lovely bird from warm lands back to my window." His work talks about the longing for a homeland that has now changed. It is no more the beautiful, peaceful state it used to be.
"Bialik wrote it on Israel when he was in exile. Today, I am an exile. I have chosen not to live in Israel because it's not the country I dreamt of. It's war-torn. I use the birds to express how the dream of Zionism has fallen," Anzi says.
For S Thiru—the creator of the camera art—public artworks represent the "collective consciousness" of a city. He has lived in Vadodara and seen how art installations have given a character to the city. "Vadodara has one of the best fine arts colleges in India. Every circle on the roads of Vadodara has a public art installation," he says.
His installation at India Habitat Centre tries to deconstruct photography. "We have tried to open the camera apart in search of its soul. Every part of the camera stands exposed just like different layers of meaning in a photograph. I know that a lot of people wonder what it means, but at least they interact with the installation. It makes them think about it," he says.
All these artworks are part of a festival called Publica organized by Floodlight Foundation. Sheeba Dhanjal's 'Crash 2000' is another interesting artwork. It is a mix of 36 portraits of people from across the world, across different professions and social strata—some famous and some not—all of whom died in car crashes. It seems to represent death as a leveller.
Founder of Floodlight Foundation Surbhi Modi feels Delhi needs public artworks. "Unlike Mumbai which is dense with high-rises and has hardly any space, Delhi is very flat. It has open parks and gardens where permanent art installations can be placed. Art installations become a part of the city's landscape and give an identity to the place. It also celebrates art," she says.
Most of these artworks will be on display until March.
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