Art also has a lot to do with people and their connectivity, Abhinav shares a story, "I was in Baramati recently and chief of the village wanted me to paint their school. The chief later called me to say that students who once missed classes were now attending them because their school now looked so pretty. Wall art and street painting were ways through which I think we can communicate best with the locals," he says.Imagine a wall with an outer space theme.. A graduate in fine arts from LS Raheja School of Art, Abhinav had been dabbling with various visual mediums before finally choosing walls as his canvas, "When I graduated from college, I did advertising and later was exploring various visual mediums. Pointing to an artwork he made on a truck, Abhinav says that in the day and age of cell phones, one should be able to communicate with art simply by looking around.
Street-art and wall painting happened to him because plain walls, he feels, are a waste of space, "Why leave something empty, when beautiful artworks can be designed on it," he says. In keeping with our city’s colourful exteriors, he has been jazzing up blank walls with his quirky illustrations and artwork; his work ados various schools in the outskirts of fiberglass coating manufacturers Suppliers Maharashtra and can even find a home on your bedroom walls. It has humans and pets in spacesuits floating around in the night sky. The satisfaction one gets when the work actually creates an impact is amazing," he says.
It was only during his extensive travels to different parts of the country that he started thinking about the concept of wall art and street painting, "I would see blank walls, and as an artist, this would disturb me and make me think about art and its relation to ordinary people. "People should at least look at the walls and think," says Abhinav, who works with a team of two people and uses everything from acrylic colours to spray paints to create his artworks. Since my college days, I would paint at home," says Abhinav, who never had the luxury of a studio. This is one of the many illustrations created by Abhinav Kafare — a 26-year-old illustrator from Mumbai. The school with whitewashed walls gave me a scope to paint something amazing.