Julien de Casabianca is a French and Corsican visual artist with an unusual passion: he takes images of museum paintings and puts them up on nondescript, decrepit walls around streets corners. De Casablanca first began his work in Paris in the year 2014, and has since visited 40 cities in over 19 countries, implementing the Outings Project, his global initiative aimed at “bringing museum works to city walls.” And this year, he visited India, bringing museum works by Indian artists to decrepit walls and street corners. So you have a portrait of Prince Khurram (Emperor Shah Jahan) by artist Abu’l Hasan pasted in Goa, and a painting of Shah Jahan’s second son, Prince Shah Shuja, pasted in Mumbai, an image of the Hindu goddess Kali in her avatar as Mundamalini, vanquishing the demon Mahishasura—along with various other paintings of unnamed men and women. De Casabianca pasted nine paintings across Mumbai, Kochi and Goa as part of the Outings Project which seeks to bring art into the everyday lives of people. The Project invites participation from anyone who has access to a camera phone and a printer. In some cases, de Casabianca assists them with the printing of the artwork. Participants from a diverse range of countries, including Paraguay, Ukraine and Tasmania, have contributed to the project with photographs of paintings, which they have displayed on walls in their cities.
