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The Mythic Modernist

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August 03, 2025

The quiet wonder of Madhvi Parekh’s world reflects the kind of art that is at once playful and deeply profound

- By MEDHA DUTTA YADAV

The Mythic Modernist

In a world enamoured with spectacle, Madhvi Parekh stands as a quiet force-her life a gentle rhythm, her art a vivid outpouring of memory, myth, and dream. Born in a small village in Gujarat, far from the art world's galleries and critical gaze, she has carried the clarity of rural life like a talisman-one that shields her vision from the distractions of modernity and keeps her rooted in the essential.

"Everything I paint," she says, "comes from memory. Even the dreams." At 83, she still paints nearly every day. Her recent works are on display at the ongoing DAG exhibition, Madhvi Parekh: Remembered Tales. Reaffirming her place in the vocabulary of folk modernism, or as her husband the celebrated artist Manu Parekh puts it "she is a contemporary modernist with rural sensibilities", this exhibition celebrates her enduring ability to transform memory into richly imagined worlds that speak across time and place.

Monumental in subject and scale, the exhibition features several large-format canvases each one a testament to her mastery of medium and myth.

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