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Evoking dreams that have psychological depth and significance, the surrealistic paintings of Arun Goswami are punctuated with a symbolism that is quintessentially musical. Keatsian ‘unheard melodies’ are sprinkled across his recent works in oil, titled Of Unheard Melodies and Choreographed Dreams. Theatrical in design and composition, each painting of the series is like an illuminated stage, where dreams are played out. The viewer sees a dense, busy and complex collection of images, with dark-bodied Delacroix-like males and beautiful, sensually alive females, who are the heroes and heroines of the strange plot that is being narrated through symbols and totems. It is as though we are witnessing a scene from the thoughts of a bizarre, absurd, whimsical mind. What holds together the action on canvas is Goswami’s brilliant sense of coloration and pigment distribution, consisting of major and minor hues, very much like the major and minor keys in an opera overture.
Event: An exhibition of paintings by Arun Goswami When: Till November 10; 3 pm - 8 pm Where: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road
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November 10 - 15 at Galerie Karma, P-505 Keyatola Road; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Santanu Roy, Sunil Sarkar, Swapan Goswamy, Santanu Mukherjee, Md. Jakir Hossen and Gourab Malakar.
November 10 - 15 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor; 1 pm - 7 pm: The fourth exhibition of solo paintings by Apurba Debnath.
November 10 - 16 at Gallery Sunayan, P-271, B Block, Lake Town; 3.30 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of needle-art works by Namita Chakraborty.
Till November 10 at Akar Prakar, P-238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Missed Call — an exhibition of recent works by C. Douglas.
Till November 10 at Tejas Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #4007 6042; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Devi-II — Twenty-five artists’ impressions of Goddess Durga.
Till November 10 at The Halo Heritage Art Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, #2419 0133; 2 pm - 8 pm: Durga, the Icon — an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by well-known artists.
Till November 10 at Silpi Art Gallery, 32A Judges Court Road, #2479 2004; 1 pm - 8 pm: Spiritual Quest in Colour — an exhibition which attempts to capture the spiritual and aesthetic insight of a number of contemporary artists. Curated by Prasanta Daw.
Till November 15 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Creators presents a group exhibition of paintings and sculptures.
Till November 15 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road, #3058 4060/62; 11 am - 7 pm (weekdays): Larger Perspective, a show of large format contemporary artworks by eminent artists.
Till November 16 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo exhibition of recent works by Kanchanmala Ghosh. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till November 16 at Starmark, South City Mall; 11 am - 8 pm: Emami Chisel Art and Starmark present Art on Easel, an exhibition of artworks by Shukla Bhattacharya.
Till November 16 (except Monday) at Spectrum Art Gallery, 4 Lake West Road, Santoshpur; 2 pm - 8 pm: Rainbow — paintings and sculptures by eminent masters and contemporary artists.
Till November 18 (except Sunday) at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #2460 4245; 11 am - 7 pm: Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts presents Glasscapes — its first anniversary show of glass sculptures, paintings, photography and object d’art. Participating artists: Debashish Chakraborty, Tandra Chanda, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Partha Pratim Deb, Chhatrapati Dutta, Srila Mukherjee, Shyamal Mukherjee, Chandrashekhar Patil, Anuj Kumar Poddar, Suhas Roy, Ketaki Roy Choudhury, Sisir Sahana, Katayun Saklat, Sk. Sahajahan and Foram Thakore.
Till November 19 (except Mondays & November 13) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, #2466 6802/2843; 3 pm - 8 pm: Nature Invited — an exhibition of sculptures by Manik Talukdar.
Till November 20 at Anant Art Gallery, 18A Alipore Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Fieldsoflabour — an exhibition of paintings by Pradeep I. Mishra.
Till November 22 (except Sunday) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2290 2274; 11 am - 7 pm; Monday (2 pm - 7 pm): Recent works by Chandra Bhattacharjee.
Till November 23 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, Duckback House, 2nd floor, #2287 3377; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of creative art furniture, installation and sculptures.
Till November 24 at Shree Art Gallery, 11 Gurusaday Road, Kusum Apartment, Flat no. 63, #30222040: Festive Hues, an exhibition of paintings by well-known artists.
Till November 25 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886/2837; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Phalguni Dasgupta.
Till November 28 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: The Voices of the Canvas — an exhibition of the works of 20 well-known artists.
Till November 29 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road, #24484925/24497931; 11 am - 8 pm: Beyond the Dark — Recent works: Mixed Media and Sculptures by Shuvaprasanna.
Till November 30 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road (#24556942/43) and at 46 Satish Mukherjee Road (near Rashbehari crossing); 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Suranjan Basu: A Retrospective, an exhibition of Basu’s works (1957-2002).
Till November 30 at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace, #2465 1444; 11 am - 7 pm: In Search of Language — an exhibition of paintings by Sunando Basu.
Till November 30 (except Sunday) at Aakriti Art Gallery, Orbit Enclave, 1st floor, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 12 noon - 7 pm: Masters Collections featuring works by Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Kartick Chandra Pyne, Manjit Bawa, Paritosh Sen, Partha Pratim Deb, Prokash Karmakar, Sanat Kar and others.
DRAMA
November 10 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Gandhar presents Kachher Manush, a play by Dr Sirish Atawale; translated by Kamal Sanyal and Bijoylakshmi Barman. Direction: Gautam Haldar (filmmaker).
November 12 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nehru Children’s Museum presents Bhanga Buker Panjore, to be performed by its students. Direction: Rama Prasad Banik.
November 13 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan presents Hawa Badal. Drama & direction: Kunal Mukhopadhyay.
November 16 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Mukhomukhi and Niva Arts present Atmakatha. Direction: Soumitra Chattopadhyay.
November 16 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre; 7 pm: Thealight will stage Ruddhabaak, dramatised by Biswadeb Dutta and directed by Atanu Sarkar.
PERFORMING ARTS
November 13 - 16 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6.30 pm: Sangeet Natak Akademi presents Thumri Festival. Participants: Sucharita Gupta, Shanti Hiranand and Chhanulal Mishra on Nov. 13; Purnima Choudhuri, Jagdish Prasad and Rita Ganguli on Nov. 14; Murad Bano, Subhra Guha and Ajay Chakraborty on Nov. 15; and Savita Devi, Mashkoor Ali Khan and Girija Devi on Nov. 16. Also, lecture demonstration sessions on Nov. 14 and Nov. 15 at 10.30 am. Topics: Nov. 14: Traditions of Thumri - an overview with Pandit Vijay Kichlu. Nov. 15: Legend of Thumri in three parts — Begum Akhtar by Shanti Hiranand, Siddheshwari Devi by Savita Devi, and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan by Ajay Chakraborty.
November 15 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: An evening of Carnatic music and dance. Featuring a violin jugalbandi by Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath, with K.V. Prasad (mridangam) and Vaikam Gopalkrishnan (ghatam); and Bharata Natyam by Milan Adhikari, Shambo Das, Debarghya Chaudhuri and Subho Roy Chowdhury of Kalamandalam Calcutta.
November 15 at Science City Auditorium; 6.30 pm: West Bengal Correction Services and Indo Occidental Symbiosis present Tagore’s Valmiki Pratibha, to be performed by the inmates of West Bengal Correctional Homes. Direction: Alokananda Roy.
November 16 at Science City Auditorium; 6.30 pm: Indo Occidental Symbiosis and Juhu Cultural Association (Mumbai) present Tagore’s dance-drama Shyama, with Gracy Singh in the title role and Manoj Malhotra (Mumbai) as Vajrasen. Songs by Kavita Krishnamurthy, Srikanto Acharya, Babul Supriyo, Rupankar, Saheb Chattopadhyay, Jayati Chakraborty and others. Narration: Soumitra Chattopadhyay and Sreela Majumder. Direction: Alokananda Roy.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till November 23 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Patterns — an exhibition of photographs by Susan Aurinko, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Anirban Das Mahapatra, Gaurav Gangwar, Naquib Hossain, Naveen Kishore, Ameet Mallapur, Mrinal Mandal, Deepak Tandon and Ian Umeda.
TALK
November 10 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Ritananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga.
WORKSHOP
November 10 onwards at Proscenium Art Centre, Rippon Street; 4 pm - 6 pm: Theatrecian presents a 15-day theatre workshop on play-writing, direction, set and light designing, and acting. To be conducted by Dhruv Mookerji and other eminent theatre personalities. Details with Devina Seth (#99030 07760).
November 10 - 20 (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) at Kalpavruksh, 99/5/12 Ballygunge Place; 4 pm - 6 pm: A workshop on how to improve your child’s handwriting. Details at #2460 4554, 93308 91386.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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