Art works in Hyderabad left to rot
The Hindu
‘There is no maintenance, no money to take care of these after CoP11’
Nearly nine years after they popped up under flyovers, city squares, thoroughfares as art, making a statement about biodiversity, the works of art don’t draw attention any more. If some of the murals under the Panjagutta flyover have lost their original hue, some have been torn out of their places.
The art works near Patny Circle are no longer visible under the grime and dust created by heavy traffic. The Thinking Money sculpture by C.V. Ambaji has been torn out of its location near Biodiversity Park and is now located yards away near Mindspace Junction. It is barely visible.
It appears as if the city was never spruced up for the biodiversity meeting known as Conference of the Parties (CoP11). “No maintenance. No care. There is no money to take care of the art works,” says Ramana Reddy, whose works were part of the art project in 2012 and can still be seen under the Patny flyover.