Muslim Mystics-exhibition of miniature paintings on Sufism at the Taj Art Gallery (1982), Mumbai and at Triveni(1984), Delhi.

WHAT CRITICS SAY..

Muslim Mystics

The acrylic colours applied to Italian art paper, are indeed out of this world. But what is peculiar about the relationship between colours and textures on the one hand and the philosophic theme of the paintings on the other is a unique blending of palpable sensuousness and mystic meaning… What one has called versality is evident here in ample measure. Generous abstractions, graphic- like effects and old fashioned line drawing are all present here, but the chemistry of Abid’s faith has transformed these modern miniatures into poems paralleling the pronouncements of the Sufi’s.

Dhyaneshwar Nadkarni, Times Of India,
25th March 1982