The shiny chariot that is drawing crowds to Whitefield Art Collective

Summary: This edition of Whitefield Art Collective is a tribute to Yusuf Arakkal that will have art works on display for a month at VR Bengaluru in Whitefield. The Whitefield Art Collective has independent participants such as George Martin P.J., Murali Cheeroth,Rajesh P.S, Mayadhara Sahu, and Ria Rajan. The "Whitefield Art Collective" at VR Bengaluru in Whitefield is not just a collective of 100 artists to showcase a multitude of art works and installations during the weekend, but has some intensely creative pieces grabbing attention to detail. This was the starting point for his four-wheeler craze in an aesthetic sense, according to Gallerist, Sara Arakkal, Arakkal's wife. The car was given away by Arakkal's friend and art collector Harish Padmanabha who swapped the car with two of Arakkal's paintings and a sculpture," recalls Mrs. Arakkal.

The "Whitefield Art Collective" at VR Bengaluru in Whitefield is not just a collective of 100 artists to showcase a multitude of art works and installations during the weekend, but has some intensely creative pieces grabbing attention to detail. The magnetic pull is, of course, the late Yusuf Arakkal's "arto-mobile" where the Bengaluru-based artist had transformed his 1956-model Fiat Millecento car into a copper sculpture. While the curious were seen prying into the minutiae of this golden funky brown car-makeover at the Art Collective, R.H. Kulkarni, art historian, who has penned a special essay on Arakkal, said, "Arakkal's passion was not restricted to his brush ... his love for automobiles have interesting incidents and stories behind them." "There was a fascinating phase in Arakkal's life in the 1980s where his deft hands itched to do something different all the time.

That was when he came across this car. As he was a talented muralist, he turned it a round into a pièce de résistance, and brought in his friend to do the welding of copper reliefs," says Mr. Kulkarni.

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