State of the Art Introduction

Husain Scrapbook

Serigraphs

One of State-of-the-Art's projects was to convert Marine Drive in Mumbai, romantically referred to as the 'Queen's necklace', into an open air art gallery for one week, with all the hoardings along the road as commissioned artworks with a social theme. The vision was, on one hand, to bring art to the common man - outside the hallowed precincts of galleries and museums and on the other, to present the artist with a broader canvas to present their vision. HART was perceived as a traveling exhibition that would transform the main streets of the major metros in India and abroad. As a sample of what we had in mind, Laxman Shrestha and M.F. Husain made two hoardings, one with the help of hoarding artists and another entirely on his own. These were displayed at two prominent junctions of the city for two weeks.