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[[left margin]] Rosenberg, Karen
"Reveling in the Multicultural Possibilities of Paper"
The New York Times.
February 1, 2013. pg. C28 [[/left margin]]

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Brancusi, whose limestone carving "The Kiss" inspired her early relief print of the same title (made from two side-by-side blocks of lightly inked wood). Other prints made with the same collaged-wood technique, on Indian handmade paper, remind you that paper is wood - wood pulp, anyway - and that every drawing or print is therefore a kind of sculpture. 
That idea is reinforced in wall reliefs from the early 1980s, raised grids and indented squares made from cast and pigmented paper (sometimes brushed with gold of aluminum powder).
It finds its most eloquent expression, however, in Ms. Hashmi's "Pin Drawings", a mesmerizing series of works made by piercing sheets of white paper with needles of various sizes.

(The 20 examples on view were recently acquired by the Guggenheim.) Dating from 1977, they are conversant with Postminimalism and Process art but feel, somehow, more private. The closely spaced punctures, displayed raised-side up, bring to mind braille, henna tattoos and, most relevant to the show's title, enlarged pores. 
"Zarina: Paper Like Skin," which comes to New York from Los Angeles, where it was organized by Hammer Museum, has been supervised here by the Guggenheim's former associate curator of Asian art, Sandhini Poddar, and the museum's assistant curator, Helen Hsu. 
It includes a retrospective within a retrospective: Ms. Hashmi's "Ten Thousand Things" a set of small paper collages recreating works from her oeuvre. (It's a work in progress, initiated in 2009, but it's meant to be comprehensive.) It was inspired, Ms. Hashmi says in an interview with Ms. Poddar, by Duchamp's "boite en valise" - a whole career packed into a suitcase, and an ideal point of reference for this itinerant artist. 

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"Zarina: Paper Like Skin" continues through April 21st at the Gugenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street; (212) 423-3500, guggenheim.org.

"Dividing Line," a woodcut representing the border between India and Pakistan.