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THE TRIBUNE Monday, March 9, 1987 By Charles Shere The Tribune Zarina Hashmi is showing a number of wall-hung sculptures in cast paper at Berkeley's Kala Institute: single, geometric, monochrome pieces that often look like cast concrete. They're marked, inscribed or formed in careful geometric styles suggesting the primitive intelligence of a Stonehenge or Carnac. You know they know more than they say, and respect their silence. Decoration and formality, substance and surface seem perfectly balanced: These pieces capture the imagination and stay with the viewer. They are accompaned [[accompanied]] by work by Keiko Nelson, whose cast-paper nine-part "Monotonic Garden" shows Zarina's influence — Nelson studied with her — but whose more lyrical paper reliefs and kimonos are less successful because of their wispy delicacy. The three "Reminiscences of Thailand," however, begin to escape this tendency to prettiness. ...