Explorations in printmaking From the beginning of her artistic career, Samita Nag has endeavoured to master the finer points of the various modes of printmaking. She has experimented with the intricacies of intaglio, as well as drypoint, mezzotint and colography techniques. She has also worked on a melange of plates of different materials and coloration methods. Her early works are landscapes, where she has tried to capture the iridescence of rural Bengal with its sensuous charm of the seasons and vignettes of rural life, like scenes with jugglers, bird sellers, fairs and festivals. More recently, her artistic sensibilities have been inspired by pre-historic rock paintings of Bhimbhatka in central India. An attempt to discover the contemporary in these primitive works of art led Nag to do a series of etchings based on them. The ongoing exhibition presents works that are distinctive, personal expressions of her creativity, where she has infused a dynamic plasticity and paradox of form and content, while trying to convey the raw primal energy and the silent cry of the long lost creatures of imagination depicted in the cave paintings. Event: Graphic works by Samita Nag When: Till June 14; 3 pm - 8 pm Where: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road

art

Till June 14 at Asutosh Birth Centenary Hall, Indian Museum; 12 noon - 8 pm: Personalities, an exhibition of paintings, chiefly portraits in oil on board, by Samir Ghosh. Till June 14 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of graphic works by Samita Nag. Till June 14 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 11 am - 7 pm: Tibetan Sacred Art, an exhibition of Tibetan Thangkas and sculptures. Curated by Prabhash Kejriwal. Till June 14 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2nd floor, Duckback House, #2287 3377; 11 am - 7 pm: Exhibition of works on paper by Prakash Karmakar and Kartick Chandra Pyne, and sculptures by K.S. Radhakrishnan. June 12 - 15 at Gaganendra Pradarshasala; 2 pm - 8 pm: A solo exhibition of paintings by Jayanta Bera. Till June 15 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Amar Dey, Dr Debasis Bhattacharya, Paritosh Das, Syamal Ganguly, Uma Almol, Premangshu Mitra, Sanjib Narayan Dutta, Tapan Bhattacherjee, Sudatta Basu Roy Chowdhury and Samir Karmakar. Hosted by Behala Fine Arts Society. Till June 15 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo exhibition of Subrata Ghosh’s recent work. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm. Till June 15 at Gallery Arti Visual, 1/1W Gariahat Road (South), Jodhpur Park: Inner Space, in association with World Art Society, presents its fifth exhibition by a group of contemporary painters Ashis Kabasi, Kuntal Dutta, Prakash Maji, Shekhar Biswas, Debasish Kabasi, Debasish Podder, Sujata Chakraborty, Rashmi Sikand Yadav, Pranab Roy Choudhury and Mousumy Bhattacharya. Till June 15 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Achin Potua presents its annual exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures. Participants: Asish Gupta, Raktim Mukherjee, Gopal Das, Indrajit Narayan, Arunesh Choudhury, Sandip Mukherjee, Swapan Kumar Ghosh, Mohammad Fokhrul Islam and Sabyasachi Sengupta. Till June 16 at Academy of Fine Arts (South B); 3 pm - 8 pm: A solo show of paintings and drawings by Debnath Biswas. Till June 16 at Academy of Fine Arts (New South Gallery - A); 3 pm - 8 pm: Horizon presents its third exhibition of paintings by Apurba Debnath, Nirmal Kanti Chakraborty, Pradip Bhowmick, Ashis Mondal, Jiban Biswas and Sakti Karmakar. Till June 16 at The Halo Heritage Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, Maddox Square, 98300 50568; 2 pm - 8 pm: Inner Eye, an exhibition of paintings on canvas by Jonaki Pal. Till June 17 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of recent work by Susmit Biswas. Till June 17 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Sibaji Bhattacharjee, Dibakar Chakraborty, Piyali Hom Choudhuri and Sahanaj Parvin. Till June 17 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886; 2 pm - 7 pm: Showcasing a host of latest works by contemporary, radical artists. Till June 21 (except Sundays & holidays) at the Museum & Art Gallery of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park; 10.30 am - 1 pm & 2.30 pm - 6 pm: Exploring the Unexplored — Artists of 20th Century Bengal, an exhibition of the works of those artists who had made substantial contribution to the development of art in India but had not received due recognition. Till July 5 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rameshwar Broota, Jogen Chowdhury, Rini Dhumal, Ramendra Nath Kastha, Paresh Maity, Uday Mondal, Santosh More, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Ganesh Pyne, Malay Saha, Dilip Kumar Samanta, Kingshuk Sarkar, Shambhavi, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Sanjeev Sonpimpare and others. Till July 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 11 am - 7 pm: In the Realms of Fantasy, an exhibition of the works by Sanatan Dinda, Prokash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday, Samir Paul, Subrata Pal, Gourango Beshai, Bratin Khan, Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay and others. Till July 31 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Installation Photographs Video Art. Participating artists: Jayashree Chakravarty, Aditya Basak, Chhatrapati Dutta, Paula Sengupta, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Debnath Basu, Tapati Chowdhury and Adip Dutta. Curated by Jayashree Chakravarty.

DRAMA

June 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Mukhomukhi presents Nashta Asim. Direction: Biplab Bandyopadhyay. June 11 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Theatre Workshop will stage its latest production, Bhagaban Ja Koren Ta. Drama & direction: Ashok Mukhopadhyay. June 12 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Dum Dum Shabdomugdho Naatyokendra will stage Sparshokator. Direction: Rakesh Ghosh. June 12 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Samstab presents Eai Ghum, directed by Dwijen Bandyopadhyay. June 14 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3.15 pm: Rang Roop will stage Byaram Biram. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. June 14 & 15 at Padatik Little Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7 pm: Padatik and Rikh present Ho Sakta Hai Do Aadmi Do Kursiyaan, a play in Hindi, written and directed by Vinay Sharma. June 15 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan will stage its latest production, Helmet, a comedy written by Rajat Ghosh and directed by Anish Ghosh.

TALK

June 11 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Sarvapremananda will speak on Sri Ramakrishner Bhaktabrinda. June 11 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Sarvabhutananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. June 11 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak in Bengali on Bani O Bichar.

PERFORMING ARTS

June 12 at Madhusudan Mancha; 5.30 pm: Srijan’s annual programme features solo recitals of Tagore songs by Achin Mukhopadhyay, Anushila Basu, Basabi Bagchi, Debi Barman, Sathi Sengupta, Debarati Mitra, Madhuchhanda Ghatak, Debi Kesh and Indrani Das, to be followed by Aadi Tabo Shakti, a dance-music programme based on Rabindrasangeet with Alak Roy Choudhury, Suchhanda Ghosh and Sangeeta Basu in songs, Tarit Sarkar and troupe, Romi Dasgupta and Paramita Ghosh in dance, and narration by Sulagna Basu and Prabir Kumar Khan. Compere: Madhumita Basu. June 12 at Birla Academy; 6 pm: On the occasion of the 119th birth anniversary of Ustad Nasiruddin Khan Dagar, Ustad Nasir Moinuddin Dagar Dhrupad Sangeet Ashram presents an evening of dhrupad and dhamar recitals by Subhas Chanda (surbahar), Alaka Nandy (vocal) and disciples of Dhrupad Sangeet Ashram. Accompanied by Apurba Lal Manna on the pakhawaj. June 12 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC presents Nana Ranger Gaan featuring Maya Chakraborty (Rabindrasangeet), Dilip Maity (thumri) and Lipika Bose (folk songs). June 12 & 13 at Gyan Manch; 6 pm: A variety performance of dance, song, recitation and audio-drama by the students of Nehru Children’s Museum. June 13 at Girish Mancha; 6 pm: Abhisar presents Shudhu Tomar Bani, a solo recital of Tagore songs by Dipanwita Mukhopadhyay. June 14 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Academy Theatre presents Theatre O Cinemar Gaan: Ekaal Sekaal. Participants: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Soumitra Chattopadhyay and Debajit Bandyopadhyay.

FILM SHOW

Till June 11 at Gorky Sadan; 6.30 pm: Cinema Comedy: Russian Panorama, organised by Eisenstein Cine Club. Today: Ivan the Terrible: Back to the Future (dir: Leonid Gaidai). June 13 at Nandan II: Films Division, Government of India and Nandan, West Bengali Film Centre jointly present the second season of Classical Singers on Celluloid. Featuring documentaries Gangubai Hangal by Vijaya Mulay ay 6 pm; Girija Devi by Bijoy Chatterjee at 6.30 pm; and Pandit Jasraj by Madhura Jasraj at 7.30 pm.

EXHIBITION

Till June 11 at Soumya’s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: June Jazz Up, a fun exhibition of saris, jewellery, home linens and accessories.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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