• Prabhavathi Meppayil. The book has a white cover and black and grey text.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has a detail shot of the artists work and the right page shows the works installed on a white gallery wall.
  • The book is open to two pages. One image fills both. It is of the artists work in a white gallery space.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has a work by the artist and the right page has a quote from the artist.
  • Prabhavathi Meppayil. The book has a white cover and black and grey text.
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Prabhavathi Meppayil

$45.00
$45.00

Accompanying Prabhavathi Meppayil’s 2022 solo exhibition with Pace in New York, this book reflects the gestural subtleties of the artist’s abstract paintings, sculptures, and installations in its typography and design.

Featuring semitransparent and colored paper, the publication situates text and images of Meppayil’s work within a modernist grid, enacting a sense of balance and harmony that is central to the artist’s compositions.

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The publication includes essays by critic Rosalind Krauss; Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; and art historian and curator Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann. Also featured is an interview with Meppayil conducted by curator Wells Fray-Smith. The book examines Meppayil’s use of traditional Bangalorean goldsmithing tools and techniques, foregrounding her deep engagement with histories of cultural production in India and the aesthetics of Minimalism and Postminimalism.
Publication details

Contributors: Rosalind Krauss, Wells Fray-Smith, Mami Kataoka. Introduction by Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2022
Softcover
136 pages: 85 color images
14 × 9 ¾ inches
ISBN: 9781948701419
Prabhavathi Meppayil. The book has a white cover and black and grey text.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has a detail shot of the artists work and the right page shows the works installed on a white gallery wall.
The book is open to two pages. One image fills both. It is of the artists work in a white gallery space.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has a work by the artist and the right page has a quote from the artist.
Prabhavathi Meppayil. The book has a white cover and black and grey text.

Prabhavathi Meppayil

Prabhavathi Meppayil invokes artisanal legacies, affinities with Indian culture, and Minimalist and Postminimalist concepts in her work. She emphasizes process, gesture, and the qualities inherent to her materials.

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