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Cotter, Holland
"ARTS: The Week Ahead: Jan 28 - Feb 2"
The New York Times
January 25, 2013

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At the Guggenhiem, Zarina "Shadow House" (2006).

A presence for decades in the art world's peripheral line of vision, Zarina Hashmi has come into full view in late midcareer. She was born in northern India in 1937 in the area that would, a decade later, become the border between India and Pakistan. Caught in political turbulence, Ms. Hashmi's Muslim family moved abroad. In format and theme her best-known work seems to reflect a condition of restless exile. Since the 1970s she has been producing series of small drawings and woodcut prints that look like Minimalist abstractions but are images of the floor plans of the many houses and apartments she has lived in. Much of her work on paper shows physical manipulation and stress, with individual sheets pierced, creased and cut.

Last year the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles organized her first American retrospective. Now the show, "Zarina: Paper Like Skin," is at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan through April 21. In addition to the mesmerizing prints and works on paper reflecting her immersion in books, calligraphy and Sufi poetry, the show includes recent sculptures based on Muslim prayer beads. It adds up to deeply personal, memory-infused art that moves beyond ego. (1701 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street; 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org.) HOLLAND COTTER