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Timeout 03-11-2007

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Telegraph Online Published 03.11.07, 12:00 AM
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Aakriti Art Gallery presents a solo show of paintings by Sekhar Roy. Into figurative paintings for the last 20 years, Roy’s works show leanings towards the likes of David Hockney, Kitaj and David Hopper. He feels he shares something with these artists — loneliness. Every person weaves an impenetrable cocoon around himself, guarding his private world jealously since it affords him the much needed escape. Roy admits that he, too, always felt the need to escape and abandon the present and the available. Like a cloud, his mind would hover over everything and then desert it when it failed to inspire or tease his intellect, moving on to seek some newer horizon. His paintings all along have been an expression of that effortless transition from the given to the imagined. Roy claims that the canvas itself leads him on and the images created are spontaneous. The paintings are in acrylic on canvas.

Event: An exhibition of paintings by Sekhar Roy When: Till November 14; 3 pm - 7 pm Where: Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street

art

Till November 3 at Academy of Fine Arts (New South Gallery - A); 3 pm - 8 pm: Solo exhibition of paintings by Arpita Sengupta. Till November 3 at Tejas Arts Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, opp. Ice Skating Rink; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Tejas presents Devi — eighteen artists’ versions of Goddess Durga. Participating artists: Abhijit Ghosh, Anita Gurbaxani, Anirban Seth, Ashok Ganguly, Barun Saha, Biswarup Haldar, Debasish Sen Gupta, Dhiren Sasmal, Goutam Sarkar, Palash Paul, Partha Ray, Ritu Poddar, Runu Misra Banerjee, Samir Aich, Sarbani Ganguly, Shambhu Saha, Sudipto Tiwari, Swapan Kumar Saha, Tarun Chakravorty, Ujjwal Debnath and Buddhadeb Bose. Till November 4 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Glimpses & Traces, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Rahul Tarafdar, Sankar Ghosh and Arunangshu Roy. Till November 4 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Kalpanirjhar presents Discoveries, a group show by artists, old and new. Exhibition curated by Sandip Ray.

TALK

November 3 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Suparnananda will speak in Bengali on Bharatiya Jivane Kalir Swarup. November 3 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Manovijnan O Atmatattwa.

PERFORMING ARTS

Till November 4 at Uttam Mancha: Rasikhapriya presents its 15th anniversary celebrations of Carnatic classical music. November 3 at 5.15 pm: Nithyasree Mahadevan (vocal) with Shertalai R. Sivakumar (violin), I. Sivakumar (mridangam) and H. Sivaramakrishnan (ghatam). November 4 at 9.30 am: Lecture-demonstration on Pallavis - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Prof. T.R. Subrahmanyam; at 5.15 pm: Sudha Raghunathan (vocal) with Shertalai R. Sivakumar (violin), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (mridangam) and R. Raman (mosring). Till November 4 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6.30 pm: Academy Theatre hosts Bangarangamancher Binodini (Binodini of the Bengali Stage), a festival of three theatrical productions on Binodini Dasi (1863-1941) from the different approach of artistic translation by theatre groups of Delhi, Calcutta and Dhaka along with the stage performances of the theatre-songs on the related perspective. November 3: Binodini (Bengali; Solo acting: Shimul Yusuf; Dir: Nasiruddin Yusuf) by Dhaka Theatre, Bangladesh. November 4: Binodini-kaler Natya Sangeet (Songs by Riddhi Bandyopadhyay and Debajit Bandyopadhyay; Narration: Soumitra Chattopadhyay). November 4 at Birla Academy; 5.30 pm: Rhythm’s 26th annual classical music concert features Taal Bichitra by artistes of Rhythm, sarod recital by Kamal Mallick, and vocal recital by Santanu Banerjee. November 4 at Gyan Manch; 6.05 pm: Bharathanatya arangetram of Kumari R. Kavya Iyer and Kumari Shruthi L. Narasimhan, disciples of Sujatha Ramalingam. November 4 at Tollygunge Club; 6.30 pm: Reliance Mobile, in association with Tollygunge Club and Spandan, presents To You with Love and Honour, felicitating some of city’s leading singers for their contribution to music over the years: Usha Uthup, Rila O’Brien, Jeffrey Rikh, Anjum Katyal, Shayne Hyrapiet and Anjan Dutt. These singers will render some of their popular numbers.

DRAMA

November 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Sayak presents Chandan Sen’s Dildar. Direction & acting: Meghnad Bhattacharya. November 3 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Spandan IPTA presents Anticlock. Direction: Sangram Guha. November 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee presents its latest production, Aayna Harin. Direction: Tarapada Mukhopadhyay. November 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Pratikriti presents Kenaram Becharam. Direction: Aalok Deb. November 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Rang Roop presents Mukhosh Nritya. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. November 4 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Niva Arts and Lok-Krishti present Krishna Gahwar. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu.

FLOWER SHOW

November 4 (2 pm - 8 pm) & November 5 (9 am - 8 pm) at Marwar Hall, 5B Judges Court Road, Alipore: Pushpa Bitan Friendship Society and Oriental Flowers present Poetry in Bloom, showcasing famous poems through floral art.

VARIETY

Till November 9 at DePOT, E Mall, 6 Chittaranjan Avenue: DePOT, a one stop shop for books, music and gift, presents fun events like magic show, harbola, puppet show and a workshop on candle-making and mehendi. Details at #39836642.

EXHIBITION

Till November 5 at Soumya’s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: Home Scapes, an exhibition of home linens and accessories, enhanced by small paintings and desktop sculptures by well-known artists and sculptors. Till November 7 at 85 Lansdowne, 85B Sarat Bose Road; 11 am - 7.30 pm: Featuring fall winter collection by Rajesh Pratap Singh and Amit GT; launch of two resident designers Wendell Rodricks and Pankaj Ahujya; men’s wearline by Anamika Khanna and Kiran Uttam Ghosh; and the festive line by 42 resident designers. Till November 9 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 11 am - 7 pm: Colour in Crystal, an exhibition of hand-blown glass by Srila Mukherjee. Till November 17 (except Sundays & holidays) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #22902274; 3 pm - 7 pm: Works in handmade paper by Anupam Chakraborty.

READING

November 4 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report to Dhritarastra of the fierce clash between Nakula and Karna, Sakuni's son Uluka defeating Dhritarastra's defector son Yuyutsu, and Sakuni routing the Pandava ranks, in the 397th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.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:

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