In this particular exhibition, it is clearly the sculpture of Arun Pandit that stands head and shoulders above the rest. The theme is impressions that sink into us. Primarily, they appear to be of forces restricting our vision, our expression and creativity. These forces may be those of the recession, the sectarian forces and their so-called moral police, or even our retreat into ourselves, living in a not-so-splendid isolation behind our newspapers on a park bench.

Pandit addrresses burning issues of our day in a subtle but clear manner, reminding us that the best art is that which shows things as they are. Sharing the show with Pandit are Dinesh Kumar Ram andGina Franklin Gupta. Ram has a way with light and colour that serves equally to those in blocks of flats. He has a remarkable facility with colour, which naturally carries with it the danger of becoming merely decorative.

The same pitfall is there in the conventional ``garden-gnome'' style of Gina Gupta's ceramics. The marriage between art and design is not so easy as it looks at the first sight. Gina, however, seems to be breaking out of the framework of the gnome-culture of the US and evolving a more serious narrative approach which is strongest in her mural-reliefs. The Vis-a-Vis show reflects the superiority of the art environment over that of Euro-America as it is much more tolerant of outside trends than they are.