Artists conjure images to showcase aviation industry trends

A clutch of artists have used airplanes to depict how the aviation industry has helped to build new relationships across the globe, across people, races and cultures as well as fostering international trade among others in a new exhibition that focuses on the growth of the aviation industry.
Artists are interpreting issues like like foreign direct investment, global cooperation, regional connectivity and airport infrastructure, all key issues in focus at the three day International Aviation Conclave, that is scheduled to end on December 13.
The exhibition titled "Anti-Gravity" has been conceptualised by artist Ankur Rana with a series of artworks on aviation with some of his associated artists.

Rana maps out in his various paintings how new relationships can be built between the past and present, between miles across the globe.
He has depicted ancient and modern planes on various canvasses, with visualisation stretching beyond the bygone years and highlighting progress made in recent years of spacecrafts.
His skycaps highlight realistic forms of airplanes since inception, with explorations of both the interior and exterior of the planes.
Durga Kainthola's painting has a background of Doughlas DC-4 Aircraft which portrays one of the first postage stamps of Independent India in 1947 and was meant to be put on foreign airmail letters only. The bulb illuminate this period of Aviation in the history of an Independent India on August 15, 1947.

Kantholia has painted the flight of Lord Hanuman from the epic Ramayana.