Painter Paresh Maity's colourful Odyssey at new New Delhi International Airport

Renowned painter Paresh Maity has brought off a real coup. He has created the biggest painting of his life and probably the longest in India. It stretches up to over 850 feet and is surely one of the most monumental paintings in the world. The first painting, titled The Indian Odyssey, measuring 7 by 800 feet, consists of 53 panels, while the second work, called Celebration, sized 6 feet 2 inches by 62 feet is made up of five panels. In all, one sees 58 panels spanning a little less than 900 feet. The entire piece, undoubtedly the most huge public art in India, now adorn the spanking new New Delhi International Airport executed by GMR Infrastructure.
“The project started four months back in mid-March 2010. The proposal came from GMR Infrastructure and civil aviation minister Praful Patel. They invited me to visit Delhi’s new international airport which will be the third largest in the world,” says Maity. “They approached me to create some artworks for this magnificent project and I felt honourd.”
Maity goes to add that when he saw some walls of the airport with the GMR team, it was “an amazing experience”. He could not believe that somebody could create an 800 feet painting which would be one of the longest in the world.
04/07/10 Ashoke Nag/Economic Times

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Categories: Airports Jul 2010