Marol Art Village’s travel art initiatives and Sunday events like #Back2TheRoots jam sessions are a community-driven bid to spin a area into a informative hub
Art during Bharat Van Park embellished by locals during a graffiti and art workshop. Pics/Sameer Markande
Nearly 22 years ago, a Military Road Residents Welfare Association (MRRWA), a village gratification multitude in Marol put down skeleton to modify an deserted chase during a finish of Military Road into a open park. It’s called Bharat Van, and from a outside, it seems all too regular, as if there weren’t an expanded garden that ascends to mixed levels with space for morning walks, sports and informative activities. This garden is one stop of Marol Art Village (MAV), an art village upheld by MRRWA and Wicked Broz, a graffiti and travel art collective. When we dump by a area, we are greeted by proprietor and co-founder of Wicked Broz, Omkar Dhareshwar who helms a project, “I wish to put Marol on a map, make it a subsequent Kala Ghoda, with birthright walks and travel art tours.” Every Sunday, MAV hosts #Back2TheRoots, jam sessions during a park where they learn slacklining and sketching, control a garden purify up, and a swat cypher.
Graffiti during Eco Park, Marol by Mooz, Wome and NME, 2017
MAV consists of spots where a common puts adult uninformed paint including Dhareshwar’s residential complex, Eco Park. The East Indian Association of Orleria or Marol Gaothan 59 instituted another heart when they approached a common for a project. The murals by artists and locals simulate a enlightenment of a families in a area. Other MAV stops embody Adarsh Nagar, Jabarpada, Vijay Pipe Lane, and buildings around Marol. The seeds for MAV were sowed in 2015, with additional mist paint fibbing around from commissions, projects and internal and general festivals including Ladies First, Bombway Festival, and Bonjour India. The Art Village wouldn’t be what it is currently though MRRWA, Wicked Broz, and hip-hop. The Indian hip-hop stage is community-driven, and graffiti is an prolongation of a genre. Dhareshwar reveals, “Over a years, I’ve realised it’s not only about a art, though a community. It’s critical that each design resonates with a space and a people. You emanate it for them and engage them in a process.” Dhareshwar points out an design during a dilemma during Bharat Van finished where youngsters play cricket and football. He tells us that a few days after a art was completed, a kids embellished a outlines of goalposts and cricket stumps over it. Yet, a portrayal doesn’t demeanour ruined, it completes a story of a area.
Conceptualised by Ashwini Hiremath, embellished by locals and MAV village for Ladies First 2021
“Marol Art Village is all about formulating a right ecosystem that draws people and ideas together, and creates a space for countenance and community,” a art romantic tells us. Seven rappers from Marol who visit #Back2TheRoots — have left brazen to emanate song professionally.
Omkar Dhareshwar
The 31-year-old adds how during times while seeking permissions, wall owners are apprehensive, “They consider we are portrayal advertisements. We have to explain because we’re doing this.” The reasons are plenty; he continues that travel art creates landmarks, it reflects a enlightenment of a residents and strengthens a bond and feeling of community, and lastly — a categorical aim of Marol Art Village — it contributes
towards formulating a informative hub.
On: Jun 5; 3 pm to 7 pm
At: Bharat Van Park, Marol
Log on to: @marolartvillage
Call: 8108891319
