Wall Art Festival

The Wall art festival takes place every year in Bihar. It is a unique art project to initiate cooperation between Indian villagers and the world.  The Japan Foundation invites the artists of the Wall art Festival and the exhibition to Delhi.

Event:


The Artists of the wall art festival will talk on the 24st of  February and the exhibition from 27th  February to 4th March, 2012 at the Japan Foundation.

The wall art festival is held at Niranjana Public Welfare School - a private elementary school in Sujata village in Bihar which is an art and social development project . The main objective of the project remains to convey the power of art in the developing area. Every year Indian and Japanese artists paint on the white walls of different classrooms which is then put as an exhibition.

About the artists : 


Alwar Balasubramaniam, works in Bangalore. He mainly works in forms such as OVC, Fiberglass, wood, plastic and has won Indian Sanskriti award

Rajesh Chaity Vangad, is a Warli artist from Thane, Maharashtra.

Ichiro Endo, who calls himself a "future artist" Yusuke Asai will be participating for the third time in the festival. He drew the entire classroom including the ceiling with soil taken from fields last year , will be  participating in the festival.

These artists are also invited in New Delhi to share their work and idea along with the vision of wall art festival through the Artist Talk. The main aim of the Wall art festival remains to hand over this art project to the local villagers after few years for it to become self sustainable.