Fifty “icons” by Bartus Bartolomes (Bartolome Sanchez) are on display at the Dhoomi Mal Gallery, 8-A Connaught Place. This is his first one-man show in India.
Bartus, born in Venezuela, has already had exhibitions in Rome, Paris and San Francisco. He is a self-taught artist. He is also a poet and a photographer. At present he is working in his country’s diplomatic service.
The 50 “icons” are in different shapes and colours. Some of those are brief previews of a much larger research project. He calls it the Archaeology of the Sign.
It is an approach to iconography through collage, Chinese ink, polychromat paper, letter-set, etc. and to geometrical or symbolical possibilities of the infinite and abstract world of the signs of our collective unconscious.
The exhibition will be on till Sept, 6.
By Ravi Jain
The Evening-News Saturday, September 4, 1982.
New Delhi, India.