Colours and ideas At its annual summer show, Tejas Gallery presents mixed artworks by artists like Dhiren Sasmal, Saikat Maity, Ujjwal Debnath (a painting by him appears here), Dhananjoy Saha, Tanay Kumar Paul, Viraag Desai, Subhash Pal, Sambhu Saha, Subrata Sen, Sujit Kumar Gho-sh, Nitya Kundu and others. The artists have adapted their medium to their theme, in order to produce works that speak both through their images and their execution. Saikat Maity’s watercolours of a rain-drenched city are a perfect example of this amalgam of theme and medium. Viraag Desai’s Passion of Blue Tara is inspired by the vocabulary and patterns of Tibetan ‘mandalas’, but is executed in a textured style unique to the young artist. Dhiren Sasmal seduces his viewers with his dexterous formal structure which portrays the ethereal world of fantasy. When he works with folk tales of Bengal, his paintings reflect the sobriety of Bengal art within his multi-layered structural compositions. Apparently childlike in form and content, the paintings of Subhash Pal echo portents of danger lurking behind innocence. The works of Nitya Kundu are inspired by folk and religious legends, while Ujjwal Debnath paints pictures of piety, prayer and devotion. Event: The annual summer show of Tejas Gallery When: Till June 30 (except Sundays & public holidays); 12.30 pm - 7.30 pm Where: Tejas Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road

ART

Till May 29 (except Sundays & public holidays) at Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, #2486 6735; Monday: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesday - Saturday: 11 am - 7 pm: Prints 21 — an exhibition of recent works by Srikanta Paul, Dhrupadi Ghose, Jaysree Basak, Santanu Chakraborty, Riddhi Narayan Nandy, Sujay Mukherjee and Annabel Schenck. Till August 14 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717 / 2485 8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show 2010. Featuring works by Manas Acharya, Akhilesh, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Sumitro Basak, Shipra Bhattacharya, Bhuribai, Tapas Biswas, Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Sougata Das, Chandan Das, Meera Devidayal, Anju Dodiya, Debraj Goswami, Ramendranath Kastha, Bhupen Khakhar, Goutam Khamaru, Bimal Kundu, Subrata Kundu, Paresh Maity, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Asim Pal, Niranjan Pradhan, Mona Rai, Satyajit Roy, Suhas Roy, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Kingshuk Sarkar, Ajit Seal, Shakila, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Shuvaprasanna, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Paramjit Singh, T. Vaikuntam, Yusuf and others. May 18 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 6 pm: Preview of Progress of Non-Abstract Geometry, an exhibition of paintings by Ritendra Roy. The show will be on till June 5, except Sundays, between 12 noon and 7 pm. Till May 20 at Gallery Eye on Art, 3 Pretoria Street, Chandrakunj Building, 2nd floor; 12 noon - 8 pm: An exhibition of modern contemporary art by Anant Manot. Till May 28 at Gallery Nakshatra, 2/1 Outram Street, #2289 2982: Lluvia — an exhibition of recent paintings by Raj Sekhar Aich. Till May 28 (except Sunday) at Gandhara Art Gallery, 1B Gurusaday Road, Flat 5A (Palm Springs); 2 pm - 8 pm: Re-exploring the Explored — an exhibition of works in watercolours by Amritah Sen, Chandra Bhattacharya, Chhatrapati Dutta, Debraj Goswami, Debasish Manna, Kaustav Nag, Manjari Chakravarti, Mithu Sen and Shekhar Baran Karmakar. Till May 29 at Mon Art Gallerie, 6 Hungerford Street, 3rd floor: Of Myth, Metaphor and Allegory, an exhibition of paintings by leading artists of Baroda and Calcutta. Till May 30 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: Fragile Order, a solo exhibition of Anita Gopal’s work. Till May 31 at Art Walk, South City Mall; 12 noon - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Agni Basu and Anirban Banerjee. Till May 31 (except Tuesdays) at The Halo Heritage Art Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, #24190133 / 9836405408; 3 pm - 8 pm: Creation — featuring works by Krishnendu Chaki, Prabir Sen, Subhendu Sarkar, Maloy Das, Rupchand Kundu, Dwijen Gupta, Subroto Chowdhury, Shomi Banerjee, Rehani Akan, Dripta Guha Roy, Chandrashekhar Das and Swapan Jena. Till May 31 (except Sundays) at Ahuja Museum for Arts, 26 Lee Road, ground floor; 12 noon - 7 pm: Ancient Love — a series of paintings by Ganesh C. Basu. Till June 1 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road, #24484925, 24497931; 11 am - 7 pm: Nature Revisited, curated by Jayashree Chakravarty and Anirudh Chari. Featuring works by Debnath Basu, Nantu Behari, Tapas Biswas, Jayashree Chakravarty, Adip Dutta, Rajan Krishnan, K.S. Radha Krishna, Jagannath Panda, Manisha Parekh, Mithu Sen and Anjum Singh. Till June 5 (except Sundays) at Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; #4001 2289 / 2463 0465; 11 am - 7 pm: Who Are You, Defenders Of The Universe? — a solo show by Pakistani artist Mehreen Murtaza. Featuring digital C prints, video, LED installation, and sound-and-light cube installation. Till June 19 (except Sundays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G-7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road, #30534053 / 30584060; 11 am - 7 pm: Hyderabad Hues — an exhibition of art works by eminent artists of Hyderabad. Featuring works by Laxma Goud, T. Vaikuntam, Surya Prakash, Sachin Jaltare, Tailor Srinivas, Jagdish Chintala, Chippa Sudhakar, Ramesh Gorjala, Laxman Aelay, Fawad Tamkanat, K.S. Chari, Sreenivas Kurva & others.

DRAMA

May 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Renaissance presents Baal Bhagwan, a play in Hindi directed by Aloke Chakravorty. May 20 at Academy of Fine Arts & May 23 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.45 pm: Rang Roop will stage Brojo Buror Sabuj Baksho. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. May 20 at Madhusudan Mancha; 7 pm: Bhor — Rangakarmee’s first multilingual play. Script, design & direction: Usha Ganguli. May 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar will stage its latest production, Madhabi. Drama: Bhisma Sahani. Adaptation, music & direction: Swatilekha Sengupta. May 21 at Gyan Manch; 7 pm: Prabha Khaitan Foundation presents Justice on Trial, a Stagecraft production, written and directed by Rohit Pombra. May 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 4 pm: Ensemble will stage Bishakto, written by Utpal Dutt, designed and directed by Sohag Sen. May 23 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: The 100th performance of Ajnatobaas, a Nandikar production, directed by Sumanta Gangopadhyay.

rabindra jayanti

May 9 - 25 & May 31 - June 6 (except June 2) at Rabindra Sadan & Rabindra Sadan premises: Rabindra Sadan and the I&CA department, Government of West Bengal celebrate Tagore’s birth anniversary. Today at Rabindra Sadan Mukta Mancha, 5.30 pm: Participants: Uttarayani (chorus), Soma Roy, Bhaswati Ghosh, Soumi Kundu, Shrabanti Basu, Panchali Dhar, Krishnakali Dasgupta, Anindita Singha, Subrata Sengupta, Bhaskar Sen, Susmita roy, Padmanabha Dasgupta, Sudeepa Bandyopadhyay, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Suranjan Das and others. At Rabindra Sadan, 6 pm: Ananta Anandadhara (Srikanto Acharya, Runu Dutta and others) by Amrita Sangeet Academy; and drama Mrinal Eka (dir: Sadhana Mukhopadhyay) by Natadha.

PERFORMING ARTS

May 20 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Rudra veena recital by Asit Kumar Banerjee, with Apurbalal Manna (pakhawaj).

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till May 30 at The Palladian Lounge, Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry; 10 am - 8 pm: Moments — an exhibition showcasing a collection of photographs taken by Siddharth.

TALK

May 18 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 5.30 pm: Indo-German Association, Calcutta hosts a seminar on Future of Small-scale Industries in India. Speakers: Prof. D. Roy, Sheela Yadav and Prof. K.K. Sinha. Chairman: Prof. P.K. Bhattacharya. May 18 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Shantatmananda will speak in English on Sri Ramakrishna and the Spiritual heritage of India. May 18 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7 pm: Swami Tattwasarananda will discuss Life and Teachings of Sankaracharya. May 18 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.05 pm: Swami Kalyaneshananda will discuss Divine Life of Lord Sankaracharya and his Teachings.

FILM SHOW

Till May 19 at Nandan-II: Cine Central, Calcutta, in association with Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Mumbai, presents Korean Film Festival. Today: Running Turtle (2009; dir: Lee Yeon-woo) at 4.30 pm; and Take Off (2009; dir: Kim Yong-hwa) at 6.30 pm.

BOOK RELEASE

May 18 at The Agri-Horticultural Society of India, H.B. Kanoi Exhibition Hall; 5 pm: Release of Plants and Flowers in Tagore’s Songs, authored by Dr Debi Prasad Mukhopadhyay. Published by Samskriti, New Delhi.

CELEBRATIONS

May 18 at Sankara Hall, 93 Southern Avenue: Sri Sankara Jayanthi Day. At 5 am: Mahaganapathy Homam, Upanishad Parayanam, Mahanyasa Japa Ekadasa Rudrabhishekam and Rudra Homam, Uma Maheswara Pooja, Sree Gurupaduka Puja; at 1 pm: Mahadeeparadhana, Samaradhanai; at 6 pm: Procession of Sri Adi Sankara Bhagawatpada accompanuied by nadaswaram by Thirumaignanam Brothers & party; at 9.30 pm: Anjaneya Utsavam.

WORKSHOP

May 18 - 22 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road, and May 25 - 29 at Starmark, G-202 City Centre, Salt Lake; 11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Summer workshops for children between 5 years and 12 years. To be conducted by talented young artists Soma Das and Anjan Modak, covering the making of paper masks (first day), bookmarks (second day), paper collages (third day), animal figures with paper cups and straws (fifth day) and monoprint painting (fourth day). For details, call 99039 85097All 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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Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001;
Fax: 2234-8244