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'WHY' by Daku

2019

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Love Hyderabad Typographic Sculpture

2016

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Artvertising

2016

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Telangana Wall of Fame/ Kotta Wall

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Maqtha Art District

2016

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Maqtha Art District

Located next to the Hussain Sagar lake - one of Hyderabad’s prime locations, the Maqtha neighbourhood provided us with the ideal setting to initiate work on the vision of St+art Hyderabad 2016 - to make the city’s public spaces more interactive. 11 artworks were created in the neighbourhood by national and international artists over a month. Upon completion of artworks, the neighbourhood was launched as India’s third, open-for-all, public art district. More artworks were added to the area in the subsequent editions of the festival.

Telangana Wall of Fame/ Kotta Wall

13 artists native to the city were invited for a project on the Hyderabad’s iconic Necklace road. Following an open call-out for Telangana-based artists, 13 artists were invited to take over spots on the “Kotta Wall” (new wall)/ “Telangana wall of fame”. Diverse artists from various backgrounds engaged with a similarly diverse range of topics to enliven the boundary wall of the Maqtha neighbourhood.

Artvertising

Street artists Daku and Dia Mehta Bhupal collaborated to create a temporary installation spread across 9 advertising hoardings in key commuter-friendly parts of Hyderabad. The project sought to make an art-centric intervention to deal with the city’s ‘visual pollution’. Designed as an anti-consumerist wake up call, the installation was a commentary on the umpteen advertising hoardings that had taken over the city, altering its outlook.

Love Hyderabad Typographic Sculpture

The typography-based ‘Love Hyderabad’ sculpture was inaugurated on the banks of the Hussain Sagar lake on the last day of St+art Hyderabad 2016. Designed by artist Rocky and designer Hanif Kureshi, the ‘love sculptures’ series aims to look at newer ways of celebrating urban pride through vernacular typography sculptures. Devised as a monument of love dedicated by a city’s citizens to the city, the sculpture soon became one of the city’s most-popular hangout spots.

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'WHY' by Daku

Studies estimate there are now 150 million metric tons of plastics in the world's oceans, adversely affecting our marine ecosystem. Plastic-dumping is choking our oceans and governments across nations have begun to take measures to curb the growing menace of plastic pollution. Placed on the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad, anonymous street artist DAKU’s massive installation titled ‘WHY’ was a response to this perniciously growing problem, created in the form of a giant question mark (‘?’) using close to 3,00,000 recycled plastic bottles!