Taman Festival Bali is not for the faint-hearted. Sprawled over nine hectares next to the beach just north of the coastal resort of Sanur, this abandoned theme park is now a collection of derelict buildings that houses a salmagundi of smashed tiles, broken glass, rotting roofs... and some of the most eclectic street art you'll find in a while.
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'Owlself' by the legendary 'Wild Drawing' (WD) takes pride of place in the largest of Taman Festival's dilapidated buildings.
Top: Photographed on the mural's completion in 2015.
Bottom: September 19, 2020.
The tropics and time haven't been kind to this mural. When you see a piece of street-art that grabs you, grab it while you can – by its nature it's here today, and demolished or painted over tomorrow. Like you and me, it's fragile art.
Artwork © 2020 Wild Drawing / www.wdstreetart.com.
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Twigs, leaves and branches complete the hairdo of an unknown woman in the main building of Taman Festival Bali, Indonesia. Don't think her roots are showing yet.
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Much of the street-art and murals are open to the elements as roofs have been allowed to rot and fall apart. All is at your own risk.
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The shark-trade fisherman mural in a tritone black-and-white.
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A colonial-era European Empire soldier preparing to bayonet a native is given an anatomically incorrect once-over by a passing mural-hooligan.
There. That's a sentence I didn't think I'd write. Street-art by the same artist as the shark-fin fisherman above.
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One of several daylit basements scattered around the Taman Festival site that have become impromptu exhibition spaces for graffiti, street-art, tagging and... self-exhibitionism.
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A whale mural makes a colourful splash on the wall of a deserted outdoor building at Taman Festival theme-park in Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © 2020 ArtAnnaBronza.
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Street-art mandala of swirling eyes and fish by the muralist SwoofOne at Taman Festival in Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © SwoofOne (I. Wayan Subudi).
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Another mesmorising mandala mural by SwoofOne of a disjointed fish searching for its keyhole at Taman Festival theme-park in Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © SwoofOne (I. Wayan Subudi).
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Film tiga dimensi: The entrance to the now-defunct 'Turbo Theater' 3-D cinema at Taman Festival in Bali, Indonesia.
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A Jackson-Pollock-style stencilled mural of a human heart beats on a blood-spattered background at the Taman Festival theme park in Bali, Indonesia.
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Street-art stencil of Mr. Death's skull at Taman Festival in Bali, Indonesia.
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A stencilled street-art mandala in the shape of a swirling swastika on the peeling walls of Taman Festival in Bali, Indonesia.
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You need to watch your step while navigating one of the most interactive art-exhibition spaces in the world. Broken glass, rusty nails and snakes are all on the menu. Look before you walk, and take it super-slow.
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Some of the street-art is just cute and colourful. A peace-dove settles on the shoulder of a woman in this Taman Festival mural in Bali, Indonesia.
Artwork © Clara Fosca.
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Inspired by chillier climes, a snowman wears a barong mask as a hat as he is entwined by thorns in this street-art at Taman Festival in Bali, Indonesia.
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At first glance a bit naive and silly, this cubist-inspired mural of Muslim and Hindu Indonesian rice-farmers wearing a mosque and a Hindu temple as hats made me think twice.
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The conditions inside and outside the derelict buildings scattered around Taman Festival are perfect homes for the full spectrum of Bali's venomous and non-venomous snakes. Be very careful around dry timber and rubble. If you need to move through areas like this – better off going around it – throw a few rocks around first and see if anything comes out.
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One for the Ubud-chakra-yogi-homies.
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REM – 'Rabbit-eye movement'. 'Nuff said.
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How the pandemic year of 2020 makes me feel. Thanks for the share, brother.
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"Who's driving the bus?" Who knows. Comic auto-pilot street-art.
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It's difficult to know, and fun to guess, where the art stops and nature begins at Taman Festival.
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The last 3-D reel: most definitely a turbo-charged art experience at the most-definitely-haunted Taman Festival Bali theme-park, Indonesia.
Hope you enjoyed the show, folks.
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