An artistic journey Artists tend to be travellers, roaming the world in search of aesthetic enrichment, or in the more philosophical, intellectual sense of exploring the subtleties and depths of human nature. Danville Chadbourne’s recent visit to India has been like a dream fulfilled. All the sculptures on show at the ongoing exhibition of his works, were created at Artspace, Baruipur, where he has worked throughout last month. His sculptures have been done entirely using local clay, thus relating the pieces to their natural environment. Chadbourne’s sculptures include strong, colourful, graphic elements, his incised, painted ceramic forms defying typical Western associations with functionality and conventional processes. His use of wood, metal, bone or beaded attachments suggests a sort of obscure, indefinite ritualistic purpose. Choosing to work with natural materials and processes, his images are timeless and culturally non-specific, though they appear to have a specific esoteric dimension. Non-literal, non-narrative and non-representational, they nevertheless suggest an organic familiarity. The ultimate traveller, transmitting and translating ideas, forms and experiences, he invites his viewers to come along for a ride. Event: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Danville Chadbourne When: Till March 9; 12 noon - 7 pm Where: Artspace India, 7 Deodar Street

art

March 6 - 11 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Pradip Pradhan and Runu Misra Banerjee. Till March 9 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Exploring Darkness, the third solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sumana Ghosh. Till March 10 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani; 3 pm - 7 pm: Galerie 88 presents B / W (drawings, paintings, photographs and book) by Samit Das. Till March 10 at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Black & White — an exhibition of the works by Akbar Padamsee, Ganesh Haloi, Gurcharan Singh, K.R. Subbanna, Paritosh Sen, Partha Pratim Deb, Rabin Mondal, Ramananda Bandhyopadhyay, Senaka Senanayake, Shuvaprasanna and Wasim Kapoor. Till March 10 at Domus Art Gallery, 28/B Shakespeare Sarani; 11 am - 6 pm: An exhibition of Indian contemporary art. Till March 10 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 C.R. Avenue, 1st floor; 1 pm - 7 pm: Kriya, paintings by Joy Bhaduri. Till March10 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Maati, the first solo show of watercolours by Sandip Roy. Till March 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Beauty and the Void: A Sculptor and Four Painters. Featuring works of sculptor Asim Basu and painters Chandra Sekhar Acharya, Goutam Sarma, Prangopal Ghosh and Ratan Banerjee. Till March 13 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P238 Hindustan Park; 3 pm - 8 pm: Art in Itself — works of K.M. Adimoolam, P. Gopinath, Achuthan Kudallur, V. Viswanadhan, R.M. Palaniappan and Akkitham Narayanan. Till March 17 (except Sunday) at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) & 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays - Saturdays): Charged Figures — the art of Jatin Das. Till March 26 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park; 11 am - 7 pm (weekdays) & 3 pm - 7 pm (Sundays & holidays): Small is Beautiful, an exhibition of miniature works by Indian contemporary artists.

drama

March 6 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Institute of Factual Theatre will stage its latest production, Sacrifice, the English version of Tagore’s Visarjan. March 6 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Chenamukh presents Labo Tanka. Direction: Anasua Majumdar and Indrasis Lahiri. March 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 7 pm: Rangakarmee presents Manto Aur Manto. Design & direction: Usha Ganguli. March 10 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3.15 pm: Gandhar presents Satyaasatya, directed by Shyamal Chakraborty. March 15 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Theatron presents Bernarda Albar Bari, based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s last play, The House of Bernerda Alba. Translated into Bengali by Salil Bandyopadhyay, it is directed by Saswati Biswas.

PERFORMING ARTS

March 7 at Sandhyatara, Star Theatre; 6.30 pm: Theataari — a programme of readings from long-lost, popular Bengali plays. Participants: Jagannath Basu, Urmimala Basu, Sudipa Basu, Badsha Maitra, Manoj Mitra, Suchita Raychaudhury and Chaiti Ghosal. Drama songs will be presented by Anandee Basu. Direction: Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee. Till March 7 at Rabindra Sadan; 5 pm: Purbanchal Folk Festival and Folk Mela, organised by EZCC in collaboration with the state government’s department of information and cultural affairs. Featuring Bhangra, Sambalpuri and Holi folk dances of Punjab, Orissa and Bihar, respectively. Also, an exhibition of crafts of these states. March 7 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 6 pm: Performance of tabla maestro Tanmoy Bose to mark the release of his latest album, Taal Tantra 2 - The Third Eye. March 9 at Gyan Manch; 6.45 pm: Samskritiki Shreyaskar presents an evening of Kathak by Sohini Debnath, senior disciple of Rani Karnaa. March 16 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 7 pm: Sangeet Ashram presents Holi Hai, featuring thumri singers Purnima Chaudhury, Subhra Guha and Dalia Rahut. Accompaniment: Ananda Gopal Bandyopadhyay and Subhankar Banerjee (tabla) and Rajendra Prasad Banerjee (harmonium).

talk

March 6 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama.

POETRY-READING

March 7 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar (Rabindra Sadan - Nandan complex); 5.30 pm: Souhardya 70, in memory of poet Braja Chattopadhyay, presents its monthly poetry-reading session along with drawings and songs. Participants: Sudhendu Mullick, Mrinal Basu Choudhury, Pankaj Saha, Krishna Basu, Abhijit Ghosh, Subhas Sarkar, Shatarupa Sanyal, Yasodhara Roychoudhury, Poulami Sengupta and Atreyee Joardar. Drawings by Bijan Choudhury and songs by Sanjukta Bhaduri.

DISCUSSION

March 6 at National Library Bhasha Bhavan; 5.30 pm: Victorial Memorial, National Library, Nandan and Budh-Sandhya host Pratham Galpo Lekhar Galpo. Welcome address: Prof. Sudhendu Mondal. Participants: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Dhrubajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Tarapada Roy, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Dibyendu Palit, Bani Basu, Suchitra Bhattacharya, Samaresh Majumdar, Kana Basu Misra, Neelanjan Chattopadhyay and Abhijit Tarafdar. Moderator: Samarendra Sengupta and Soumitra Mitra.

FILM SHOW

March 7 at Nandan-II; 5.30 pm: Victorial Memorial, National Library, Nandan and Budh-Sandhya host the screening of the documentary, Beyond the Himalayas directed by Goutam Ghose.

EXHIBITION

Till March 11 at Bidhannagar Sports Complex, opp. Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake; 11 am - 8 pm: North East Crafts Fair, a collection of handicrafts, handloom products, hand-printed household textiles, sarees, Assam cane furniture and bamboo basketry items. Till March 14 at Sasha shop, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 10 am - 7 pm; Sunday (10 am - 1 pm): Rhythm n Blues, an exposition celebrating the colours of Holi through an exhibition of contemporary and traditional blue pottery, utility and decorative studio pottery, silk handbags and lacquer ware from Vietnam, colourful stuffed cotton hangings and beaded jewellery from Gujarat and scarves and stoles from Sasha groups.

workshop

March 6 (7.30 am - 8.30 am) & 7 (6 pm - 7 pm) at Gold’s Gym, 57 J.L. Nehru Road: Gold’s Gym presents two aerobics sessions by Shilpa Mimani. Registrations on for complimentary classes.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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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