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An artist whose name has become synonymous with the visual depiction of the voice of the oppressed and downtrodden, Somenath Hore had acquired a larger-than-life image in his own lifetime. Hosted by Galerie 88, Life and Arts, the ongoing exhibition of his sculptures, graphics, drawings and paintings, is a tribute to the legendary artist on his 88th birth anniversary. Commencing his artistic career with drawing for a political cause, gaining in maturity with print-making aimed at mass appeal and moving on to the new medium of relief-prints for self-analysis, he finally emerged an accomplished sculptor, with a distinctive identity and originality. While his prints reveal his inclination for figurative art, the paintings on show bear testimony to his unique imagery, where beauty is consciously created by an act of deliberate understatement, without deviating from reality. His skill as a master sculptor can be manifested in the structured balance of his human and animal forms, carrying his signature stylised touch to emphasise persecution, tyranny and suffering.
Event: An exhibition of sculptures, graphics, drawings and paintings by Somenath Hore When: Till May 5 (except Sundays); 3 pm - 7 pm Where: Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani
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art
Till April 21 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Splendour — art works by Babul Basak, Bhagat Singh, Dharmendera Rathore, Gautam Mukherjee, Harish Kumar, Jiban Biswas, Jyotirmoy Ash, Krishnendu Porel, J. Nandakumar, Nikhil Biswas, Nitya Kundu, Partha Pratim Deb, Rajesh Deb, Ranjan Mukherjee, J.P. Singh, Subhendu Porel, Sutapa Khan and Vijender Sharma.
Till April 21 at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Contextual Vocabulary — an exhibition of paintings by Arghyapriya Mazumdar, Anant Nikam, Babu Xavier, Dhiraj Choudhury, Habibur Rahman, Ramprasad De, Sankar Mondal, Somenath Maity, Somnath Adhikary and Sk. Shahjahan.
Till April 21 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 20, 3rd floor, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Munmun Das, Sujata Bhattacharjee, Swapna Ghosh, Babir Das and Atanu Ganguly.
Till April 21 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm, Saturday (10 am - 3 pm): Paintings and sketches by Arun Banik.
Till April 24 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Narayan Sahoo.
Till April 24 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South-B; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Blue Boy — paintings and drawings by Snehangshu Shekhar Das.
Till April 26 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: A group show by members of Spectrum Artists’ Circle. Participating artists: Samir Saha, Biswajit Mondal, Sukumar Das, Tarun Banerjee, Rabin Dutta, Murari Mohan Basu and Anjan Sengupta.
Till April 27 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road: Readings Fragments From Time, an exhibition of paintings by Sudip Roy.
Till April 28 at Artspace India, 7 Deodar Street (off Dover Road); 12 noon - 8 pm: Artspace India’s Annual Art Show 2007, titled Baishakhi.
Till April 28 at Samokal Art Gallery, Gol Park; 4 pm - 8 pm: Lunette presents an exhibition of paintings by contemporary artists of Bengal.
Till May 1 at Angan Art Gallery, 11 Fern Place; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Ajoy Bandopadhyay, Dipak Mukherjee, Dilip Banerjee, Kamalaksha Ganguly, Kiran Kumar Sen, Pramathes Chandra, Ratan Acharya, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Somnath Roy, Swati Roy, Siddhartha Sengupta and Shibani Sengupta.
Till May 12 (weekdays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G-7 Mahalaya Apts, 3 Woodburn Park; 11 am - 7 pm: Summer Colours, recent works by Anil Gaikwad, Anirban Seth, Anup Giri, Avijit Mitra, B.R. Panesar, Barun Roy, Gautam Khamaru, Keshav Roy, Manik Kandar, Pushpen Roy, Sachin Jaitarey, Sachindranath Jha, Samir Deasi, Samir Sarkar, Sibsadey Chowdhary, Subhamita Dinda, Subrata Das, Sukanta Das and Swapan Palley.
drama
April 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Shilpi Sangha presents Tritiyo Purush. Direction: Samar Chandra.
April 20 & 21 at Sasha, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 5 pm & 7 pm: The Creative Arts presents Upon A Yarn II. Direction: Ramanjit Kaur.
April 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3.30 pm: Ganakrishti presents Tashkar Brittanto. Direction: Amitava Dutta.
April 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nabamayukh Nattya Sangstha presents Waarish. Direction: Rishi Mukhopadhyay.
April 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Salt Lake Theatre will stage Pratyagaman, based on Frederich Durenmurt’s The Visit. Direction: Pannalal Maitra.
April 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sundaram presents Ranger Haat . Direction: Manoj Mitra.
April 22 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.30 pm: Agun Mukho, a joint production of Max Mueller Bhavan and Tritiyo Sutra. Drama: Bratya Basu. Direction: Suman Mukhopadhyay.
April 22 at Sarala Memorial Hall; 6.30 pm: Total Theatre’s latest production, Vyas. Direction: Shantanu Bandyopadhyay.
performing arts
April 19 at the Vivekananda Hall of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture; 6 pm: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture and Jalsaghar present Kaler Gaaner Gaan, an evening of devotional songs of yesteryears by Biman Mukhopadhyay.
April 19 at Gyan Manch; 6 pm: Presentation of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Yuva Pratibha Samman to Amrita Das. Followed by innovative Odissi choreography by Guru Ratikant Mohapatra. Participants: Sujata Mohapatra and artistes of Srjan.
April 19 at The Palladian Lounge, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 3rd level, 6 N.S. Road; 6.30 pm: An evening of Hori and Kajari by Dr Soma Ghosh of Mumbai.
AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION
April 20 at Calcutta School of Music; 7 pm: An audio-visual feature presented by Ajoy Ray on ‘Art Pepper’, the great jazz alto sax player.
talk
April 19 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 5 pm: Dhyanesh Narayan Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Mahabharater Shantiparva.
April 19 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak in Bengali on Katho Upanishad.
PLAY-READING
April 19 at Gorky Sadan; 6.30 pm: Gandhar presents Alexei Arbuzov’s Tanya in a play-reading session. Set in the post-evolution Russia of the 1930s, the play unfolds the story of a young girl who gradually comes to realise that working for others is the only fulfilment in life, and she herself attains that.
FILM SHOW
Till April 24 at Max Mueller Bhavan auditorium; 5 pm & 7 pm: A select retrospective of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) on the occasion of his 25th death anniversary.
April 21 at Seagull Book Store, 31A S.P. Mukherjee Road; 6.30 pm: Screening of a documentary film, Running Out of Time, by Shape.
EXHIBITION
Till April 19 at Calcutta Ice Skating Rink; 10 am - 8 pm: In aid of charity, Rotary Club of Calcutta Chowrenghee presents Parampara 2007, an exhibition of innovative and aesthetic crafts, lifestyle products, wooden handicrafts, fashion wear and jewellery.
Till April 30 at Aastha, 19A Lake Road, Lake Market: A collection of Lakhnawi chikan (hand embroidered) ready suits, sarees, dress material, tops, kurtis in cotton, voil, kota, georgette, etc.
WORKSHOP
April 19 - 25 at Mysore Hall, P-94 Raja Basanta Roy Road: Bharata Natyam workshop on Natya Shastra (108 karanas) to be conducted by Sri Srikanth and Srimathi Aswati Nayar, disciples of Dr Padma Subramaniam. Details with Sujata Ramalingam (9831005633) or Hemamalini Suresh (9831054900).
April 20 - 22 at Bharatiyam. IB 201 Salt Lake; 11 am - 5 pm: Workshop on creative dance and movement therapy organised by Hitaa in collaboration with EZCC.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244
All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less
than a week ahead to:
Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001;
Fax: 2234-8244
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