Poemas Pintados / Omkar Bhatkar

Painted Poems

by Omkar Bhatkar

Spanish mystical poems seen through Indian Gond visual language, carried across monastery, public exhibitions, travel notes, and paintings made in response to the journey.

View Paintings Open Diary

Painted Poems

Los Místicos Españoles Through Gond Art

The exhibition frames poems as painted worlds: lines become branches, saints become witnesses, rooms become inner landscapes, and the written word enters color through the visual grammar of Gond art from India.

Across Ubeda, Fontiveros, and the later exhibition stops, the project carries Spanish mystical writing into a contemporary Indian hand, preserving both devotion and personal travel diary.

Exhibited Works

Painting exhibited in Spain

Interactive Timeline

Day By Day Across Spain

17th April / Ethiopia Transit

Adis Ababa Ethopian Airport

I'm safe and comfortable in Ethopia.

I'm safe and comfortable in Ethopia. I'm put up in a transit hotel, surprisingly called as 'Friendship' My next flight is at 11:10 pm. (Ethopian Time) And it reaches Madrid by 6 am. (Spain time) - I believe when it's 10 am in India, I should be in Madrid . I had my lunch. And It's raining in Ethopia. I'm on hotel WIFI now. Unless I reach Madrid and switch to another number, I will be relying on Hotel and Airport Wifi's So pls don't worry.

Interesting Fact. There is no AC and Fan in hotels here. As the climate throughout the year is spring like and doesn't exceed 25° Houses / Buildings/ Hotels rely on natural ventilation.

Not venturing out. I'm feeling tired. So I'm going to stay in a hotel. Tonight I've 8 flight+ Going from Madrid to Cordoba

I'm at the Adis Ababa airport, Reached here. They had 2 security checks, The 1st was a fish market. 2nd was civilized Both places we had to remove shoes too. The good part is we didnt had to seperate our electronics , like we do at Indian airports. Because possibly it's a poorer country , the staff extremely kind. The swiftest immigration and the immigration staff smiles too...unlike some places . Now I'm waiting at my Gate for boarding. It's a 7.5 hr flight. Morning I will be in Madrid. José is coming to receive.

People

Gallery coordinatorLocal host

Places

Ethiopia Transit

Things Done

Diary note1 images4 text entries

17th April - Adis Ababa Ethopian Airport — Adis Ababa Ethopian Airport

Press And Public Record

The Public Life Of Painted Poems

Newspaper clippings, public photographs, and video records sit alongside the diary so the exhibition is seen both as an intimate journey and as a public cultural event.

3 press images1 video recordSpain exhibition archive