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Three Tier

Aniruddh Mehta
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Photo © Diana Păun

Three Tier, 2017 – ongoing

Digital printing on textile, 100 cm x 100 cm
Triptych, part of the Cracks and Pockets series

Aniruddh Mehta is a visual artist and designer based in Mumbai, India. His work spans a wide range of media: from traditional graphic design to digital and new media art. Mehta’s artistic practice is defined by attention to detail and a seamless combination of techniques, often focusing on common themes that connect single artworks.

Mehta’s work created for this exhibition represents visually the complexity of megacities in India today by layering geometric patterns and photographs taken in the cities – from wall textures to street corners to the people who inhabit these spaces. Mehta’s collage-based work is an ode to the city he lives in and the cities he visits.

On loan courtesy of St+Art India Foundation.

St+art India Foundation

The first iteration of the artwork Cracks and Pockets was presented in 2017 at the Sassoon Dock Art Project, an indoor and outdoor experiential exhibition curated by St+art India Foundation, an organization that has fostered Urban Art in India since 2014.

St+art India Foundation is a non-profit organization based in India which contributes to urban regeneration and community living through contemporary urban art projects. The foundation enables a vision for democratised public spaces through interdisciplinary art interventions that are rooted in the social context.

Since 2014, the foundation has organised more than 30 festivals and 7 art districts across New Delhi, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad among 20 other cities, creating iconic landmarks with over 600+ murals, installations and community based spatial interventions while working with more than 500 Indian and international artists. In 2019, St+art introduced the ‘Craft into Contemporary’ Residency to explore how indigenous crafts can find relevance in today’s global context grounding it in research, creative experimentation, and mentorship. Along with this, the St+art Care Initiative enables a transformative experience to government run institutions, women and children’s centres, and NGOs like paediatric hospitals and special education schools where artists engage with the community members and students to create interactive art in spaces which are often somber. This extensive body of work that is spread out through the country has also empowered the foundation to play a key role in influencing public policy at a state and central level in India.

Each public art district in the country and editions of festivals bring curated projects to civic spaces that are embedded in urban culture, and use art as a tool to reimagine how public spaces can be utilised. For the foundation, which has been responsible for making urban art a movement in India, public art interventions are a celebration of the street as a canvas for visual creativity.

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