Visual Art and Culture

Sculptor Vilas Kulkarni [ first one from the right]                   When our show was going in the Jehangir Gallery,Mumbai , at the same time, in the same place, Delhi artists were exhibiting their works in the spacious auditorium gallery. In the auditorium hall, postbox sculptures made in the fiber glass medium stood as testimony to the bygone period and caught each and every visitor's attention since the post boxes are connected with everyone's life. Delhi-based artist Vilas Kulkarni had this concept of post boxes in his mind since a long time but the concept got materialized when he was planning for his Mumbai show. When asked about these sculptures, he was emotionally remembering the olden days. The technology has smoothed the ways and people are getting news very fast today, but the new gadgets cannot bring the warmth and emotional touch that the letters used to bring, the artist expressed. Now the messages...