Spray can splendour

An art form called aerosolgrafia was born in the early 1980s in Mexico City, Mexico. Unique and fun, it involves the use of spray cans to create images.

An art form called aerosolgrafia was born in the early 1980s in Mexico City, Mexico. Unique and fun, it involves the use of spray cans to create images. It became popular as a form of street art, and artists would create large landscapes, pyramids and replicas of city lives in public places.

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Mumbai-based artist Sunil Gogoi has been using the same technique on canvas since eight years.

He works by first creating a background and then splashing colours onto the canvas. The technique involves precision and control while the paint is still wet.

Gogoi, who has had no formal training, held his first solo show in July last year. He’s back with 30 new works with the latest exhibition, Spray of Hope.

“I have always been fascinated by space, nature and landscapes and wanted to explore them in my work. Aerosolgrafia gave me the liberty to do so,” said Gogoi. “I’ve also experimented with this art form by creating the images on canvas using different tools like knives, lids of cans, sponge, newspapers and a whole lots of other hardware that I find around me,” he added.

Spray of Hope opens on December 24 and continues till December 27 at the Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road.