Nearly five lakh people have visited the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale since it was inaugurated on December 12, 2016.
A press release from the organisers said that the figure takes into account both ticketed and non-ticketed entries to the 12 biennale venues as well as the large crowds seen at the special programmes like talks, film screenings, music and dance performances taking place on the sidelines of the main exhibition.
The biennale’s free entry Monday policy continued to see strong crowds. Two Mondays, December 26 and January 2, brought in record one-day turnouts of 20,000 and 25,000 visitors respectively. Attendance on Mondays has been steady even in the post-vacation period and weekends posted robust figures.
The epic mural artwork titled ‘Parayipetta Pantheerukulam’ by artist P.K. Sadanandan at the Biennale would soon inspire the students of Aided Mappila Upper Primary School in Malappuram. An image of a section of the wall art, illustrating the story of Naranath Bhranthan will adorn the cover of a notebook to be distributed to 2,000 students in the school. The book, designed by Art by Children, an art education initiative by the Biennale Foundation, was released on Saturday at Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi.
