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Timeout 07-07-2006

Assembled art

The Telegraph Online Published 07.07.06, 12:00 AM
Assembled art
Combining imagination and art with poetic vision, the collages of Mitali Dey (one of them appears above) articulate her views on a host of personal and societal concerns. The ongoing exhibition of her collages presents seven of her recent works based on the theme of women. A riot of vibrant colours, they portray women in their many moods, miens and mannerisms. Some of her works also depict present realities, and are an expression of her own attitude to the world around her. Her most colourful collages are like illustrated verse and deal with love and mythology. In fact, a refined romanticism is the hallmark of her art, which is heightened by her technical brilliance and evocative artistry. Assembling and fusing together brightly-coloured torn paper, Dey creates multi-layered art works by balancing expansive colour fields with sketchy lines and bold application of brush-strokes. The show also features paintings by Pritwish Sikdar, Monimala Dey Basu and Naba Kishore Chhanda.

Event: An exhibition of collages and paintings When: Till July 10, 3 pm - 8 pm Where: Gallery 79, 79 Raja Basanta Roy Road

Art

Till July 7 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Fits of Passion, drawing and painting exhibition by Lalit Maity. Till July 8 at Anant Art Gallery, 18A Alipore Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Anant Art Gallery presents Summer Exhibition 2006. Featuring works by Farhad Hussain, Prasanta Kalita, Pratul Dash, Sambit Panda, Samit Das, Sharanu Pareet, Suchender P and Tanmoy Samanta. Till July 8 at Gallery Rasa, 828/1 Block P, New Alipore; 4 pm - 8 pm: Sculptures: The Bengal Connection, sculptures by Jamini Roy, Ramkinkar Baij, Chintamoni Kar, Sankho Chaudhuri, Sunil Kumar Paul, Kamala Das Gupta, Somenath Hore, Uma Siddhanta, Bipin Goswami, Tarak Garai, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Shyamal Roy and others. Till July 9 at Birla Academy of Art and Culture Gallery, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by six contemporary artists of Orissa. Till July 12 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings on Rajasthan by Nitai Saha. Till July 12 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Xpressions ?06, 88 selected paintings by students of Nehru Children?s Museum. Till July 18 at The Palladian Lounge, Third Level, 6 Netaji Subhas Road; 11 am - 7 pm: From the City of Joy, paintings curated by Ratnottama Sengupta. Featuring the works of Anirban Seth, Beena Pradhan, Chandra Sekhar Acharya, Munidra Rajbongshi, Ratan Banerjee, Shantanu Bose, Shubhendu Porel, Tamal Krsna and others. Till July 28 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road; 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: The Masters of Imagination, works of eminent artists including Prokash Karmakar, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sanatan Dinda and Suhas Roy.

drama

July 7 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandiranga presents Trinayan. Direction: Somenath Mukhopadhyay. July 8 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Aneek presents Dwitio Basanta. Direction: Malay Biswas. July 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Sundaram presents Munni O Saat Chowkidar. Drama, direction and acting: Manoj Mitra. July 9 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rangakarmee presents Rudali. Design and direction: Usha Ganguli. July 9 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents Utpal Dutt?s Megh. Direction: Anish Ghosh. July 9 at Padatik Little Theatre-I; 7 pm: Padatik and Rikh present Ho Sakta Hai Do Aadmi Do Kursiyaan, a new play in Hindi. Drama and direction: Vinay Sharma.

PERFORMING ARTS

July 7 at Mahajati Sadan; 6 pm: Ashokerenu presents Ramayana, a dance-drama based on Tagore songs. Concept and direction: Swagatalakshmi. Dialogues: Arjun Chakraborty. Also, songs presented by Swagatalakshmi. July 7 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB-201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: Siddhi Dhamal folk dances of Gujarat and folk songs of Bengal, presented by Nazmul Haque. July 7 & July 8 at Rabindra Sadan; 5.45 pm: Samaroh presents Barsha Utsav, a programme of Tagore songs and poetry, featuring (on July 7) Purba Dam, Rajeswar Bhattacharya, Abhirup Guhathakurta, Pramita Mullick, Abhijit Guha, Sarmistha Kar Purkayastha, Devi Kesh, Sanghamitra Chakraborty, Debasree Biswas & others (songs) and Partho Ghosh, Gouri Ghosh, Subir Bandyopadhyay & Ishita Das Adhikari (recitation); (on July 8) Srikanto Acharya, Lopamudra Mitra, Swastika Mukhopadhyay, Anushila Basu, Iravati Basu, Suman Panthi & others (songs), Chitra Lahiri (poetry-reading) and Bijoylakshmi Burman & Prabir Brahmachari (recitation). July 8 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: You & I ... Ek Raag Ek Shatabdi, the evolution of one raga over the last 200 years, presented by Soumyojit Das (vocals), Sourendro Mullick (piano) and Moubani Sorcar (compere). Also, an Odissi dance recital by Swapnakalpa Raychowdhury and students and an audio-play by Jagannath Basu and Urmimala Basu.

talk

July 7 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Prabhananda will speak in Bengali on Amukhya Gita.

photographs

Till July 8 at Gaganendra Shilpa Pradarshashala: Jadavpur Viveknangar Nature Lovers? Association presents its ninth annual exhibition and competition on nature and wildlife photography. Till July 13 (except Sunday) at Calcutta International Foundation for Arts, Literature and Culture, 1 Rawdon Street, 6th floor; 2 pm - 7 pm: Solo photography exhibition by Sunil K. Dutt.

Film show

July 7 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB-201 Salt Lake, 6.30 pm: EZCC presents Folk Theatre of Bengal, a 60-minute documentary. Direction: Ashok Viswanathan.

exhibition

Till July 7 at 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10 am - 8.30 pm: Soumya?s Creation presents an exhibition of costume jewellery in trendy and traditional designs. Till July 8 at P-8 Gariahat Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Karma Kutir hosts an exhibition of home-decor items including wrought-iron trays, lamps, hand-painted mirror-frames and hand-made paper products. Till July 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Monsoon Magic, showcasing hand-crafted items made with paper, dokra, terracotta, wood, wax and cloth. Hosted by Nimble Fingers.

All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:

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