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The social and political history of modern Bengal has had a significant impact on its art scene. At the same time, artists in Bengal have also displayed a will to develop distinctive, individual idioms based on their personal experiences. The deceptively familiar look on the surface of the works of new generation artists is merely the result of their being created within the sphere of common visual traditions. Though their semantics appear vaguely similar, their syntactics ensure that there is a totally new dimension to each new work. To be launched this evening by Ashok Vajpeyi, Art Now - A Glimpse; Collectors’ Series 1, an exposition of the works of 10 artists, presents a mind-boggling variety of visual appearances of the art of contemporary Bengal. The release will be followed by an exhibition of paintings by the 10 artists featured in the book. It will continue till May 7 (except Sundays); 11 am - 7 pm. Featured artists include Aditya Basak, Chandra Bhattacharya (a painting by him appears above), Jayashree Chakravorty, Partha Pratim Deb, Sekhar Roy and Tapas Konar.
Event: Launch of a book on the works of 10 contemporary artists of Bengal When: Today at 6 pm Where: Emami Chisel Art, 1st floor, Emami Tower, EM Bypass
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Till April 23 at Artists Circle Gallery, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: Impressions of Mandarmoni, an exhibition of the works by 13 city artists who had been to Mandarmoni for three days.
Till April 24 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Exposition 2008 — the seventh annual exhibition by the students of Academy of Fine Arts.
Till April 24 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Multiple Choice — Recent paper works by Debraj Goswami.
Till April 25 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road: Colour & Rhythm, an exhibition of paintings by Nabyendu Chatterjee.
Till April 26 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Joy Dey, Piyali Chakraborty, Sarabita Das, Suparna Chaudhury, Ajit Kumar Ghosh, Surojit Sengupta, Abhishek Acharya, Santosh Sahoo and Chitra Ghosh.
Till April 26 at Chemould, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Recent paintings by Ashis Sarkar, Prosenjit Dasgupta, Parthasarathi Nath and Sumit Das.
Till April 27 at Gallery Yapanchitra, Stephen Court, 3rd floor, Lift 2, 18A Park Street; 10 am - 6 pm: Art Border Line, UK and Art Border Line Foundation India present Tarun Dey Retrospective (1980-2008).
Till April 27 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Bishnu Dhar.
Till April 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings and sculptures by Asim Basu, Asit Poddar, Chandrasekhar Acharya, Gautam Sarma, Prangopal Ghosh and Ratan Banerjee.
Till April 28 (except Sunday) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2283 5394; 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays - 2 pm - 7 pm: Shifting the Logic Drawings (1977-2007), an exhibition of paintings by Dilip Ranade.
Till April 30 at Galerie Karma, P-505 Keyatola Road, #24636731/32; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by S. Pranam Singh, Sudhangsu Bandyopadhyay and V. Nagdas.
Till April 30 at Akashdeep Apartment, 5 Little Rawdon Street, 2nd floor; 11 am - 6 pm: Beyond Borders, an exhibition featuring works of well-known artists from India and Pakistan. Participating artists: Sunil Das, Shipra Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Das and Shuvaprasanna from India, and Khalid Mohammad, Arif Khan and Asad Farudi from Pakistan. Organised by Mystic Inspiration.
Till April 30 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Juxtaposed — an exhibition of paintings featuring the works of Abesh Bivore Mitra, Atanu Bhattacharya and Partha Dasgupta.
Till May 3 (except Sunday) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, #3052 3243; 3 pm - 7 pm: Staring Inscriptions, featuring art works by Jayanta Naskar, Lina Ghosh, Maneswar Brahma, Paula Sengupta, Pinaki Barua, Rajen Mondal, Romendra Nath Kasthya, Sabita Pegu, Samita Nag, Siddhartha Ghosh, Som Sankar Roy and Srikant Paul.
Till May 9 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Figurative Expressions, an exhibition of the works by Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Sanatan Dinda, Subrata Pal, Shyamal Mukherjee, Prakash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday Chaudhuri, Gourango Beshai, Bratin Khan and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay.
Till May 17 (weekdays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Stretch of Imagination: A show of exclusive artworks by 30 well-known artists.
Till May 25 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #2455 6942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of the works by Somnath Hore.
April 24 - 27 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: Anarkali Reborn — a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Anjanna Kuthiala.
DRAMA
April 23 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Feriwalaar Mrityu, adapted from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Music & costume: Swatilekha Sengupta. Adaptation & direction: Rudraprasad Sengupta.
April 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Samstab presents Eai Ghum. Direction: Dwijen Bandopadhyay.
April 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents poet Jasimuddin’s Sojon Badiyar Ghat. Music, concept, design & direction: Goutam Halder.
April 24 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.45 pm: Arghya presents Tagore’s Rakta Karabi. Direction: Manish Mitra.
April 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Rang Roop presents Mukhosh Nritya. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay.
April 25 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 6.30 pm: Little Thespian presents Katha Collage-3, dedicated to Tagore and consisting three of his stories in three languages: Shesher Ratri (Bengali), Jeevit Mrit (Hindi) and Duraasha (Urdu). Design & direction: Uma Jhunjhunwala.
April 26 at Academy of Fine Arts premises; 5 pm: Theatre Spandan presents its open-air production, Shial Ponditer Goppo, based on a short story by Upendra Kishore Roy Choudhury. Scripted and designed by Sourav Gupta.
April 26 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Theatre Passion presents Bhyablai Bhalo. Drama, direction & acting: Ramaprasad Banik.
April 26 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Tagore’s Chaturanga — a Purba Paschim production, dramatised by Shekhar Samaddar and edited and directed by Bratya Basu.
PERFORMING ARTS
April 24 at Gyan Manch; 6 pm: Srijan, Kolkata Chapter presents Deesha, an evening of Odissi dance (choreographed by Ratikanta Mohapatra) dedicated to Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. Participants include Sujata Mohapatra, Dona Ganguly & group, Rajnita Banerjee, Rajashri Praharaj, Rajib Bhattacharya, Subikash Mukherjee and artistes of Srijan Chhanda and Chhanda Manjuri. On this occasion, Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Yuva Pratibha Samman 2008 will be awarded Kathak dancer Souvik Chakraborty.
April 25 (4.30 pm) & April 26 (2.30 pm) at Indumati Sabhagriha, Jadavpur University campus: Vistar presents its 32nd Sangeetacharya Late Anil Roy Chowdhury Memorial Classical Music Conference.
April 25 at Purbashree, Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC presents Aami Je Sab Nitey Chai, a solo recital of Tagore songs by Sudeshna Basu.
April 25 at The Princeton Club, 26 Prince Anwar Shah Road; 9 pm: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan presents an evening of electronic and techno-music by Schaeben & Voss feat. Schad Privat, music trio from Germany.
April 26 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: Kingshuk presents an evening of dance and Tagore songs. Featuring Panchali Dhar, Pramit Sen, Mrinmoy Roy and artistes of Kingshuk in songs, and folk songs by Bratachari Kendriya Nayakmandali.
April 26 at Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani; 7 pm: Netaji Research Bureau presents Stree, a programme on women characters in Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry and drama. Dramatic recitation by Bijaylakshmi Barman and Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee with songs by Pramita Mallick.
TALK
April 23 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Paripurnananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.
April 23 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Arup Ratan Bhattacharya will speak in Bengali on Vijnaner Aloke Chetana.
April 23 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7 pm: Dipak Ganguly will speak on Swamijir Patravali.
EXHIBITION
April 23 - 25 at Calcutta Ice Skating Rink; 10 am - 8 pm: In aid of charity, Rotary Club of Chowringhee presents Parampara 2008, an exhibition of innovative and aesthetic crafts, lifestyle products, pottery, fashion wear, jewellery, etc. from all over India.
FILM SHOW
April 23 - 25 & April 28 & 19 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club presents Asian Film World: Fame In - Fade Out, a package of 10 films. Today: Continuous Journey (Dir: Ali Kazimi) and Borat... Cultural Learning of America for Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Dir: Sacha Baron Kohen).
April 25 at Calcutta School of Music; 6.30 pm: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, the 1955 Academy Award winning film, will be screened by Thiri PoSaw for the usical Theatre Club.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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