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An idealist who desired to savour every nuance of simple, rustic life, Bhaskar Mukherjee consciously moved away from the city to make Birbhum the centre of his prolific creative activities: sketching, drawing, painting and sculpting. Rooted in Realism, the ongoing exhibition of his paintings and drawings, reveals his multi-faceted talent as an artist. His realm of expression transcends beyond the simplistic depiction of his co-habitants in Birbhum’s villages like santhal men and women, birds and insects, flora and fauna. His works are, in fact, a bold, powerful, living statement of his vision and philosophy of life. His brush strokes portray nature in full bloom, as also in its terrifying, violent aspects. Human faces, dogs, goats or even lizards stare at the viewer, as if to tell the woeful tale of the erosion of old values, or of the sad urbanisation of villages. Questioning the viewer at every stage, Mukherjee’s works evoke mixed feelings of scepticism and optimism, distress and happiness.
Event: Paintings and drawings by Bhaskar Mukherjee When: Till June 2 (except Sunday); 11 am - 8 pm Where: Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road
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art
Till May 25 at Gallery Nakshatra, 2/1 Outram Street; 12 noon - 7.30 pm: Abstract paintings by Arindam Chatterjee, Anwar, S. Harsha Vardhan, Nupur Kundu, Paresh Maity, Prakash Waghmare, Pradip Rakshit, Samir Aich, Sunil Dey, Subrata Kundu, Samindra Nath Majumdar and Samit Dey.
Till May 26 at Akar Prakar, P238 Hindustan Park; 2 pm - 7 pm: A show of recent works by Chandana Hore.
Till May 26 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Showcasing the works conceived and developed at the 2006 Gallery Sanskriti Maihar Workshop. Participating artists: Shuvaprasanna, Ashoke Mullick, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Suhas Roy, Dipali Bhattacharya, Suman Roy and Sipra Bhattacharya from Calcutta, and Sanjay Sawant, Vanita Gupta, Ashutosh Apte, Rajshree, Prakash Waghmare and Satish Wavbre from Bombay.
Till May 26 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm; Saturday (10 am - 3 pm): Harmony of Colours — paintings by Saroj Sarkar and Naba Chakrabarty.
Till May 27 at Gallery Kolkata, 2nd floor, Duckback House, 41 Shakespeare Sarani; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Gallery Kolkata’s inaugural exhibition, Modern to Contemporary, showcases paintings and sculptures by eminent and upcoming artists from all over India.
Till May 27 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Behala Fine Arts Society presents an exhibition of painting and sculpture. Participating artists: Amar Dey, Gautam Chowdhury, Jnanesh Sekar Ray, Kartick Chandra Das, Premangshu Mitra, Paritosh Das, Ranjit Kumar Sutar, Sudatta Basu Roy Chowdhury, Sanjib Narayan Dutta, Sanjit Halder, Samir Karmakar and Uma Almol.
Till May 27 at Taj Bengal (By the Way); 3 pm - 6 pm: Paintings by Samir Saha.
Till May 27 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: Symphony, a solo show by Kushal Mukherjee.
Till May 28 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Annual exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Indian Society of Oriental Art.
Till May 28 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Reflection of Another Day (RAD) presents an exhibition of the works of its members Biplab Dutta, Chandan Sengupta, Maloy Chandan Saha, Nirban Ash, Sujit Ghosh, Sujit Saha and Suman Pal.
Till May 31 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park; 11 am - 7 pm (weekdays) & 3 pm - 7 pm (Sunday): Refined Strokes, an exhibition of paintings by Kartick Pyne, Prokash Karmakar, Sanat Kar, Suhas Roy, T. Vaikuntam, Shuvaprasanna, Samir Aich, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sanatan Dinda, Sekhar Roy, Wasim Kapoor, Somenath Maity, Babu Xavier, Laxman Aelay, Samindranath Mazumdar, Atin Basak, Suman Roy, Bratin Khan and others.
Till May 31 at Silpi, 32B Judges Court Road; 1 pm - 8 pm: A solo show by Barun Simlai.
Till May 31 (Sunday by prior appointment only) at Gallery Katayun, Jassal House, 4A Auckland Square; 3.30 pm - 7.30 pm: The first solo exhibition of Souren Mitra’s paintings.
Till June 12 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: Khela — new works on paper, canvas and enamel by Arunima Choudhury.
drama
May 25 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Ek Rasik Doubarik, a Barasat Anushilanee production, directed by Romaprasad Banik.
May 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Doubarik presents Ae Parabasey. Dir: Sarbadaman Som.
May 25 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.45 pm: Sandarbha presents Gahwar. Drama & direction: Soumitra Basu.
May 26 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents Dildar. Dir: Meghnad Bhattacharya.
May 26 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandipat presents its latest production, Kah. Drama: Ujjwal Chattopadhyay. Dir: Bimal Chakraborty.
May 26 at Gyan Manch; 7 pm: Neev presents Party, an Indian play in English. Dir: Udita Chakraborty.
May 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Andeek presents Dwitio Basanta. Dir: Malay Biswas.
May 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee presents Pati-Paksha. Dir: Tarapada Mukhopadhyay.
May 27 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandipat presents its latest production, Kah. Drama: Ujjwal Chattopadhyay. Dir: Bimal Chakraborty.
PERFORMING ARTS
Till May 27 at Rathindra Mancha, Jorasanko Thakurbari; 5.30 pm: Rabindra Bharati Society presents Rabindra Janmotsav. Today: Songs by Kumkum Mitra, Reena Mukhopadhyay and Abhirup Guha Thakurta, to be followed by a song-dance presentation, Teen Kanya, by Rabindra Bharati University.
May 25 at Birla Academy; 6 pm: Bharatiya Sangeet Bhavan presents Rabindra-Nazrul Sandhya. Featuring songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam by the artistes of Bharatiya Sangeet Bhavan, to be followed by Tagore’s Abhisar, a programme of reading, song and dance.
May 25 at Calcutta School of Music; 6.30 pm: Opera evening with Crano de Bergerac, sung in French with English subtitles, about the multi-talented, great-hearted man with the nose, an AV evening presented by Thiri PoSaw.
May 25 at Ashalayam shop/cafe, 1st floor, 44 Free School Street; 6.30 pm: A traditional Bengali folk concert, Baul-Fakir Music, to raise funds for street children rehabilitation.
May 25 at Aban Mahal (CLT); 6.30 pm: Brindar presents an evening of Kathak by the students of Debashree Bhattacharjee.
May 26 at Aikatan, Salt Lake; 5.30 pm: Unmesh presents Ekti Namaskare, a tribute to Tagore. Featuring readings and recitations from Tagore’s collections. To be presented by Urmimala Bose and Jagannath Bose.
May 26 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Muk Academy presents mime show of Babumoshai and excerpts from Pather Panchali. Direction: Mukul Dev.
SEMINAR
May 25 - 27 at Bharatitya Bhasha Parishad auditorium, 36A Shakespeare Sarani; 11 am: Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad and Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha present a national seminar on The Domination of English and the Crisis of Languages of the Saarc Countries. Inauguration today at 6 pm by U.R. Ananthamurty, to be followed by speeches by M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Giriraj Kishore and Zaheda Hina (Pakistan)
talk
May 25 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Pravrajika Pradiptaprana will speak in Bengali on Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Sevadarsher Vaishistya.
May 25 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Dr Sasanka Bhusan Bandyopadhyay will speak on Chandogya Upanishad.
QUIZ
May 27 at Pragyananda Bhavan, Moulali; 10 am: Mahaquizzer, a written general individual quiz. Details with Gautam Ghosh (#9830044093) or Souvik Basu (#9831445329) or at gautam08@gmail.com
EXHIBITION
Till May 28 at Soumya’s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road: Linen & Things, an exhibition of home linen 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
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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