India Art Fair 2020: Seven works you must see

Madhvi Parekh
Madhvi Parekh’s work underscores the rich heritage of folk traditions, such as embroidery and pichwai painting. Her lushly coloured and deceptively simple paintings reflect her preoccupation with childhood and the poetics of everyday rural life, also inspired by a range of Western influences, from Paul Klee to Henri Matisse.
Her work, however, refuses to reconcile this tension between the vernacular and the modern; instead, the artist uses her unique visual vocabulary to raise questions about how to interpret the folkloric in a modern India. Her magical, playful paintings draw from memory as well as from both Hindu and Christian religious artwork.