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THE TIMES OF INDIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20 1986

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The glory in paper

By An Art Critic

Paper becomes a wonderfully expressive medium in the hands of Zarina Hashmi as she casts it into tangible terracotta or moulds it with chameleon dexterity into clay or cast iron.
The Japanese build their homes of paper, and she certainly retains their feel for the material. Her Paper Plates are a series of simple repetitive forms, with, however, nothing flippant or decorative about them. She works in basic earth colours: grey, sandstone, ochre or parchment white, moulding paper pulp into 3 dimensional patterns.
Her pinhole drawings are subtle variations in graphic design. With the granular grit of sand paper or the porous feel of pumice she picks out fine and intricate compositions.
MEMORY OF BANGKOK it is titled; yet this light and lyrical work with the sun playing on a deries of windows is almost a replica of the facade of the Hawa Mahal. She seems to draw inspiration from the architecture and simple folk art of Rajasthan. Paper is metamorphosed into sun baked earth. 
The other cast paper pieces too are simple elementary motifs hewn out of metallic and slate grey. They seem a sombre flashback on our antique artifacts. The aesthetics are pure and

[[Photograph of Zarina Hashmi; captioned "Mrs. Zarina Hasmi"

eternal. SUMMER IN BERU'I epitomises the heat within and without in burnished blue and rust.
Her etchings are very close to her other work but pale in comparison Her prints AGNI and SEED seem careless and lack involvement.
In her embossing and playful thread work, which we have seen before, she falls into a predictable pattern. Her style bears testimony of her debt to contemporary Korean and Japanese art. The exhibition is or at Art Heritage. 

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titilates the eye. However if art is to take over where nature leaves off, the process of elimination and selection is necessary. On display at Dhoomimal Art Centre.

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ART

Academy opened a new exhibition of four ceramists on 16th January with their work in fired clay blending with 

[[Photograph of artwork; captioned "Memory of Bangkok in cast paper by Zarina"]]

has returned to a raw earthy approach with a naivete that at the same time belies and enriches her, experience as a sculptress.
GAURI KHOSLA has graduated from a spherical world to a multi-faceted one with miniature rock arrangements in shades of rust mirroring the man made objects we embellish our world with. Though her work lacks the power and strength of rock she has achieved some sensational results in the past and we wish her well in this new experiment.