" Vaarso "
Bharvi Trivedi
At the recent timesfest 2020 @ Amdavad ni Gufa, Vipul Prajapati’s artwork titled VAARSO was on display. He is the recipient of National Award and the Pollock and Krasner Foundation Grant.
Vipul is a techno freak artist who loves exploring and working with varied materials and his inquisite nature reflects in his work. His love for graphite is evidently visible in his work. He understands the dynamics of the materials and accordingly brilliantly incorporates them in his work. Here Vipul has created a walled background representing real amdavad as the walled city. He has used the image of one of the oldest building, the Premabhai hall, as it associates with his stroke of brush with this place. Vipul has made a huge brush that ironically talks about development that is happening all around at the cost of our heritage.
His work is representational in nature at the same time urging us to be little more sensitive and sensible of what we are up to. Here VAARSO means heritage and heritage is not just what we live with but what lives within each one of us as well.
The memories that somewhere we all carry of places and people within us is also in a way heritage. For him the value of the city and its heritage- the real VAARSO is much more than only the art culture and architecture of a city.
Bharvi Trivedi
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