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'''Prabhavathi Meppayil''' (born 1965) is an [[India]]n abstract artist known for her modernist and minimalist paintings, and [[installation art]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Prabhavati Meppayil was born in [[Bangalore]].<ref name=pedro>{{cite web|publisher=The Brooklyn Rail|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2016/12/art/prabhavathi-meppayil-with-laila-pedro|title=Prabhavati Meppayil: In Conversation with Laila Pedro|date=6 December 2016|accessdate=5 February 2017|first=Laila|last=Pedro}}</ref><ref name=khurana>{{cite news|newspaper=Scroll|url=https://scroll.in/magazine/828349/in-this-indian-artists-stunning-works-chance-plays-a-powerful-role|title=In this Indian artist's stunning works, chance plays a powerful role|first=Chanpreet|last=Khurana|date=3 February 2017|accessdate=3 February 2017}}</ref> She belongs to a family of goldsmiths, her father and brother being craftsmen of handmade jewellery.<ref name=bmirror>{{cite news|newspaper=Bangalore Mirror|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/What-you-see-when-you-see-Prabhavathi-M-Minimal-poetry-between-memory-and-loss/articleshow/56174310.cms|title=What You See When You See: Prabhavati M: Minimal Poetry Between Memory and Loss|first=Suresh|last=Jayaram|date=26 December 2016|accessdate=5 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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After obtaining a BA from [[Bangalore University]] in 1986, she studied for a diploma in Fine Art at the Ken School of Art.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/564/prabhavathi-meppayil/documents|title=Prabhavathi Meppayil: Biographical Documents|publisher=Pace Gallery|accessdate=3 December 2017}}</ref><br />
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Meppayil established her studio on [[Avenue Road, Bangalore|Avenue Road]] in Bangalore, an area with a concentration of goldsmiths.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/prabhavathi-meppayil-review|date=26 March 2017|accessdate=3 December 2017|last=Thomas|first=Skye Arundhati|title=Prabhavathi Meppayil|publisher=Studio International}}</ref><br />
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==Technique==<br />
Meppayil's works involve the use of traditional materials and artisanal techniques. She works with [[gesso]], and copper, gold and iron wires. Her studio involves master metalworkers who stretch the metals that she then embeds into the gesso panels. She lays the gesso in multiple layers over wooden panels and polishes them. The interplay between the metal and the gesso has not entirely predictable results, the surface colours themselves age over time.<ref name=khurana/> In some works, she has used the traditional thinnam, jewellers' steel tools, to create microscopic indents, both horizontal and vertical, across the gesso.<ref name=jhaveri/><br />
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==Critical reception==<br />
[[Benjamin H. D. Buchloh]]'s analysis of Meppayil's work regards its formal nature. It suggests that the use of white was so that it could ''become a space for writing, or get assimilated as architecture''. Meppayil agrees that the interstitial spaces are important to her.<ref name=khurana/> He has also described it as a ''collision of ordering principles and disordering strategies'', as it expands on the Modernist theme of anti-narration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/39178/Prabhavathi-Meppayil-tw-one|publisher=Art Basel|accessdate=16 September 2017|title=Prabhavati Meppayil tw/one, 2016}}</ref> He hoped that there would be a nuanced appreciation for the work, recognising the historical specificity of her artistic approach.<ref name=jhaveri>{{cite web|publisher=Frieze|first=Shanay|last=Jhaveri|url=https://frieze.com/article/prabhavathi-meppayil?language=de|title=Prabhavati Meppayil|date=16 September 2014|accessdate=16 September 2017}}</ref><br />
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In Shanay Jhaveri's view, the use of ''a reduced colour palette and visual considerations of the grid'' is a dialogue between Western Modernism of the 1950s and 1960s and contemporary South Asian art, expressing the clashing aesthetics of Indian neoliberalism versus the progressive ideals of Modernism.<ref name=jhaveri/><br />
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Other reviewers have likened Meppayil's abstractions to those of Conceptual Minimalism and the Italian ''Pittura Segnica'', evoking among others Gastone Novelli.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artribune.com/attualita/2014/04/minimalismo-dallindia-prabhavathi-meppayil-allaccademia-americana-a-roma/|first=Lorenzo|last=Taiuti|title=Minimalismo dall'India. Prabhavathi Meppayil all'Accademia Americana a Roma|date=27 April 2014|accessdate=16 September 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Exhibitions==<br />
Meppayil's art was displayed at the 55th [[Venice Biennale]] in 2013, the Pace Gallery in London in 2014, and at the Art Basel Unlimited in 2016. It has been presented at the 2016–2017 [[Kochi-Muziris Biennale]].<ref name=khurana/> In 2016, her work was exhibited at the [[Dhaka Art Summit]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|first=Shuprova|last=Tasneem|url=http://archive.dhakatribune.com/feature/2016/feb/05/behind-scenes-dhaka-art-summit-2016|date=5 February 2016|accessdate=16 September 2017|title=Behind the scenes of Dhaka Art Summit 2016}}</ref><br />
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One of her works "''fourteen/sixteen''" was sold for $20,000 at the [[Frieze Art Fair]] in London in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=Robin|last=Pogrebin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/arts/design/at-frieze-art-fairs-no-frenzy-but-a-sense-of-steady-activity.html?_r=0|date=6 October 2016|accessdate=16 September 2017|title=At Frieze Art Fairs, No Frenzy but a Sense of Steady Activity}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.prabhameppayil.in/ Prabhavati Meppayil's webpage]<br />
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