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Blessed with the ability to discover and reveal the richness of life around her, Shakila creates sensitive and powerful visual reflections of humanity in an original, unconventional way. Tearing and pasting paper from magazines, her collages emerge from the basic human desire to build and communicate. The simple act of tearing paper by hand (there is no preliminary drawing or cutting with knife involved) lends a physical immediacy to both her small and sculptural pieces. Whereas her earlier work was more narrative, depicting people in pastoral landscapes, her current body of work, on display at the ongoing solo show of her recent creations, is larger in scale, sculptural and more abstract. It also portrays the darker side of life, specially the victimisation of women in our society. Her unique raw material is another means of infusing her pieces with social and art-historical matter. Form and content critical to her creative process, her large installation pieces make serious social statements. Defying and ‘tearing’ all conventions, Shakila brings a competitive edge to the art of creating collages.
Event: An exhibition of recent works by Shakila When: Till August 9; 2 pm - 7 pm Where: CIMA Gallery, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue
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Till August 6 at 13/1 Ballygunge Park Road; 1 pm - 9 pm: Hue ’n’ summer ’08 presents Molting, a group show consisting of paintings, metal sculpture, installation art & performance art.
August 6 - 17 at Gallery Katayun, 4A Auckland Square; 3 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Nilima Dutta.
August 6 - 20 (except Sundays) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Abol Tabol: An installation in clay by Nidhi Jalan.
Till August 6 at Angan Art Gallery, 11 Fern Place, Ballygunge; 3 pm - 8 pm: Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Joydev Bala, Subrata Ghosh, Anjan Bhattacharya and Shailen Ghosh.
Till August 7 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Creativity Unlimited, an exhibition of recent creations by Anup Giri, Swapan Palley, Sachin Jaltare, Beena Pradhan, Debabrata Chakravarty, Asit Sarkar, Samir Paul, Minakshi De, Sukanata Das, Subrata Das, Dhananjoy Ghosh, Nelson Kennedy, Kajol Mondal, Sutapa Khan, Sibsaday Choudhary and others.
Till August 8 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2nd floor, Duckback House, #2287 3377/88; 11 am - 7 pm: Glimpses — showcasing paintings and sculptures by modern and contemporary Indian artists.
Till August 8 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: Masters of Bengal — Graphic works by Somnath Hore, Ramendra Nath Chakraborty, Chittoprasad, Haren Das, Nandalal Bose, Manindra Bhushan Gupta, Prankrishna Pal, Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, Suhas Roy, Arun Bose, Amitabha Banerjee, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Sanat Kar, Shyamal Dutta Roy, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharjee, K.G. Subramanyan and others.
Till August 9 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Gallery Sanskriti and Apparao Galleries present The Wandering Alchemist — paintings and sculptures by Alexis Kersey, George K, and Manish Nai.
Till August 9 at CIMA Gallery; Monday (3 pm - 7 pm), Tuesday - Saturday (2 pm - 7 pm): Untiled and more recent works by Shakila.
Till August 10 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Freedom Land — an exhibition of paintings by Alaykumar Ghoshal, Arnab Mukherjee, Chandra Nath Saha (Tilak), Kamal Kumar Mukherjee, Nandita Mukherjee, Shubhabrata Bose, Sudipta Dutta, Sujata Kar Saha and Utpal Dutta.
Till August 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: West Bengal Government School Teachers Association presents an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by art teachers of West Bengal government schools.
Till August 10 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue, #2283 3176; 2 pm - 7 pm: Contemplative Inwardness, a solo show by Samir Saha.
Till August 10 at Society of Contemporary Art Gallery, 398 Rashbehari Avenue, EM Bypass Connector Road, Gold Park; 3 pm - 7 pm: Group exhibition by Rangan. Featuring works by Abhijit Pal, Hirak Chand, Sabyasachi Barah, Anjana Mukherjee and Ramkrishna Haldar.
Till August 14 (except Sunday) at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur EM Bypass, #40113182; 11 am - 7 pm: Maanush, paintings, collages and mix media works by Haku Shah.
Till August 16 (except Sunday) at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #4007 6042; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Horses, a solo show of horses in mixed media on canvas by artist Dhiren Sasmal.
DRAMA
August 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Samakalin Shilpidal presents Hisabgul. Direction: Ambar Roy.
PERFORMING ARTS
Till August 9 at Kala Mandir; 6 pm & August 10 at Science City Auditorium; 11 am & 6 pm: Indo Occidental Symbiosis and Juhu Cultural Association (Mumbai) present Mallhar Festival. August 6: Debjyoti Bose (sarod) with Yogesh Shamsi (tabla); Parveen Sultana (vocal) with Abhijit Banerjee (tabla) and Debaprasad Dey (harmonium). August 7: Soumitra Lahiri (sitar) with Arvind Kumar Azad (tabla); and Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar (vocal) with Kumar Bose (tabla) and Jyoti Goho (harmonium). August 8: Kartick Kumar (sitar) with Kumar Bose (tabla); and Ustad Rashid Khan (vocal) with Subhankar Banerjee (tabla) and Jyoti Goho (harmonium). August 9: Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar) with Abhijit Banerjee (tabla); and Ajoy Chakraborty (vocal) with Kumar Bose (tabla). August 10, 11 am: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (sarod); at 6 pm: Kishori Amonkar (vocal) with Kumar Bose (tabla).
August 6 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar; 6 pm: Aparajita presents Shraban Hoye Ele Phirey, an eveing of recitation based on Tagore and monsson. Participants: Debashis Roy, Ditipriya Sarkar, Chandrima Chakraborty, Mamata Munshi, Debangshu Munshi, Gargee Hore Chattopadhyay, Sudipa Bandyopadhyay, Tridibesh Bandyopadhyay, Madhulika Pal, Manisha Bhattacharya and Amitava Bagchi. Compere: Bijurika Sen.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till August 12 at Photographers’ Gallery, 59A Southend Park, #65406499, 98303 31556; 3 pm - 8 pm: Bouquet of Photographs, featuring images taken by Atanu Paul and members of Third Eye.
Till August 13 at 46 Satish Mukherjee Road (near Kalighat tram depot), #2455 6942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: Running Amok: An exhibition of photographs by Jasmeen Patheja.
Till August 17 at By the Way, Taj Bengal; 10.30 am onwards: A Whole New World, an exhibition of photographs by Rashi Goenka.
Birth anniversary
August 6 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.15 pm: Aaj Mamo Janmadin — Rama Ramyabeena remembers Rama Mandal on her birth anniversary with a music programme Surmanabmani Bande Hey, featuring Falguni Mitra (vocal), Pramita Mallick (vocal), Biplab Mandal (taal vadya), Rahul Chatterjee (sitar), along with students of Rama Ramyabeena.
August 6 at Sisir Mancha; 5.30 pm: Uhinee observes the 66th birth anniversary of doyen of Bengali theatre Keya Chakraborty. The second evening features Durey Baire - The Unsaid Thoughts and ... (short story by Prochet Gupta), seminar on Keya’s idea of whole time theatre worker and posterity (speaker: Goutam Roy Chaudhuri), and the staging of Tumi Daak Diyechho Kon Sakale.
READING
August 6 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.30 pm: An evening of book reading: Ekaal Sekaal written by Bharati Ray. Participants: Soumitra Chatterjee, Bharati Ray and Chaitali Dasgupta. Also, an interactive session to be conducted by Uma Dasgupta.
BOOK LAUNCH
August 6 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street; 6.30 pm: The Embassy of France in India, Alliance Française du Bengale, Oxford Bookstore, and Purple Peacock Books & Arts are jointly releasing Marguerite Duras, a collection of Marguerite Duras’ works in Bengali.
TALK
August 6 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Amiteshananda will speak on Practical Vedanta.
August 6 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Vishnudevananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna-Punthi.
August 6 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak in Bengali on Bani O Bichar.
EXHIBITION
August 6 & 7 at Taj Bengal; 11.30 am onwards: Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri - The original presents an exhibition of Krsala range of jewellery.
August 6 - 30 at F-17 Dakshinapan, Dhakuria, #2423 7625: LePakshi (Andhra Pradesh Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd) hosts Mangalagiri Festival, a display of Andhra Pradesh handloom products.
Till August 13 at Merlin Homeland, 18 Asutosh Mookerjee Road; 12 noon - 8.30 pm: Green Drive: The Nature and Environment Awareness Programme showcasing rare and common saplings, foliage creepers, bonsai and rare blooms, seeds manure, palm trees, cycads and various gardening tools.
Till August 8 at Finesse, 11/1B New Road, #24790545; 11 am - 7 pm: Spining dreams and weaving spells of sarees from the banks of Narmada; subtle maheshwari sarees in myriad hues handblock printed for the elegant look, venkatgari and uppadas in real zari from Andhra Pradesh with traditional motif and contemporary look.
Till August 15 at Starmark (3 Lord Sinha Road, G-202 City Centre, and South City); 10.30 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of Penguin Classics Collection covering Greek and Roman works, and Victorian literature and modern classics.
Till August 20 at 108 Raja Basanta Roy Road, #2466 4315; 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Paramita Viswanathan’s Design showcases silk, tassar print, chiffon, crepe print, mull, kota, tangail print and south Indian sarees.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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