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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1970 Exhibition of graphics impressive By Our Art Critic At the Pundole Art Gallery Zarina, a Delhi artist, makes her debut with an exhibition of graphics. It is a very impressive show and one can respond instinctively to its many-sided maturity. The starting point of these graphics is wood--wood in all its variety of types and textures, shapes and combinations. The end-product fully demonstrates the artist's powers of transmuting her apparently mundane source material into a highly expressive and distinctive visual idiom. The attempt here is not only to stimulate textures offered naturally by wood but to explore as many patterns of textural gradations as is aesthetically satisfying. One of the tasks Zarina undertakes is to set up subtle spatial vibrations on the two-dimensional surface which she works on. She does more than merely achieve conventional three-dimensional illustrations. Space is treated by her in a fair variety of ways and the three-dimensional effect is only a part of the total impression. AESTHETIC LOGIC In Nos. 5, 7, 8 and 17 are to be found expressive examples of a contrapuntal deployment of the virgin white surface on which a graphic takes shape. There are other graphics employing representational forms to enclose space. In some a solid central structure establishes another kind of relationship with the left-over surface. While not all the works are titled, there are some whose themes--as indicated by the titles-- are intelligently, and subtly, related to the visual form (e.g., Echo, L'Homme Seul). Zarina's work is so hearteningly avant-grade but behind each graphic there is a unique aesthetic logic which no discerning eye can miss. The show close on December 26. Fine graphics by Zarina By Our Art Critic Currently holding her first individual show in Bombay, at Pundole Art Gallery, Zarina reveals a fine sense of design in all the exhibits on display. It appears the Zarina is largely inspired by wood--in the sense that what she portrays approximates in several instances to a study of barricades and the grain of chopped wood or the design of chipped plywood. Working mostly in black and white or sepia, with just a basic reference to a subject, Zarina, as in "Cage" (No. 20), relies mostly on the sense of design for the eventual pattern. A particularly interesting exhibit is No. 24, while No. 3 presents a series of upward lines that make one think of a pile of books. Nos. 14 and 24 take up the theme of barricades and present arresting arrangements. Elsewhere Zarina depends mainly on black and white contrast to focus on the finer points of a design in terms of twists and turns. Two efforts that recall modern sculpture are No. 13 and 19, faintly recalling to mind the image conception of Armitage and such others. BLITZ, DECEMBER 19, 1970 [[image]] GRAPHICS Ready for her current exhibition (December 16-26) is ZARINA whose latest creations of Graphics are on at the Pundole Art Gallery. A veteran of four exhibitions in India and abroad and winner of 1969 National Award, Zarina's creations adorn the walls of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Altair, Brussels; Curwen Gallery, London; La Hune, Paris; and Hemisphere, Australia.
