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Wall art and murals are mushrooming all over Georgetown Penang's heritage site. The latest is the "Art is Rubbish is Art" exhibition at old Hin Bus Depot. The street artist, Ernest Zacharevic, who has been painting his wall murals all over Penang, is the one who had turned rubbish into art here. The exhibition is opened to the public (free admission) and has begun since Jan and will end on Feb 14.
This was actually my first time attending an art exhibition. Since I had seen some of the murals online, I was not shocked to see broken furniture and equipment converted to art pieces on display. It is either you see "rubbish" or "art". Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder ~ Plato.
I thought it was a different experience than the one I had imagined. For one thing, the art pieces were being displayed in a run-down building, the old Hin Bus Depot. Since I like heritage building, I like this place too. It has peeling paint on the walls and one can see red bricks showing.
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Secondly, it was not air-conditioned but there were ceiling fans in the main hall. It cooled for a while but could not beat the scorching hot weather in Penang now. However, the back part of the place was open-air. My advice is to get an umbrella and camera ready to find and snap the art work in the ruins.
Lastly, the art pieces mostly looked creepy to me. It must have meant that they were well-painted to have the effect.
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The best shot of all was the last wall mural depicting a huge girl bending against the backdrop of the tall KOMTAR tower.
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