Art Events Kolkata: September-October 2010
'Say Everything'
Experimenter. 18 September 30 October.
'Remembering Ramlal'
Gallery K2. 17 30 September.
'Integrated Nature'
Paintings by Debamitra Chowdhury. Academy of Fine Arts. 16 22 September.Debamitra Chowdhury, through his paintings, seeks a union between life and nature. He has endeavored to explore tradition. In his modernistic structure he has subtly infused the forms and philosophy of neo-Indian school.
'20 Colourful Years of Art'
Gallery Sanskriti. 24 September 30 October.Gallery Sanskriti celebrates 20 years of existence with the exhibition comprising of artists Sakti Burman, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Amitabha Banerjee, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Ganesh Haloi, shubhaprasanna, Shipra Bhattacharya, Alok Bal, Debabrata Dey, Bimal Kindu, Sunil Kumar Das, Niranjan Pradhan, Prabhakar Kolte, Paresh Maity and many others. The exhibition highlights on several important formal structures evolved in our modernistic sojourn since 1960-s till the first decade of twenty-first century,
GenNext V : Epitomising New Generation Art
Aakriti Art Gallery. 1– 21 October.

Drawings and Sculptures by Sridhar Mahapatra and Radhakahta Bandyopadhyay
At Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park, Kolkata. 28 Sept 9 Oct.Due to lack of documentation, museum and art collection facility the past of our art even that of early twentieth century is gradually withering away. RKM Institute of Culture's endeavor in this regard is noteworthy. They regularly exhibit artists of the past who are not much remembered to day. The present exhibition was such an endeavor. Both the artists worked with sculpture in classical or traditional style. The exhibition showed, their meticulous perfection of execution was aesthetically of a very high standard. Sridhar Mahapatra born in 1902 came of a traditional craftsman family from Orissa. His father Giridhari Mahapatra was the teacher in sculpture in Indian Society of Oriental Art. Giridhari learnt from his father and gradually evolved as an important sculptor in traditional style. Radhakanta was his disciple. He took to art in 1937. Most of their works were mythical figures depicting images of Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
Solo Exhibition of Paintings by Tarun Ghosh
Academy of Fine Arts. 30 Sept 6 Oct.Our modernist art movement has been greatly influenced by expressionism. Rabindranath was the first artist, who could enter deeper into the various nuances of this form and used it through transformation in the light of his life long philosophical and visual insight. Inspiration of his expressionist forms became active to the succeeding generation of artists since 1960-s. The inward contemplative orientation of the paintings of Tarun Ghosh, who came to lime light during 1980-s, has some subtle links with the art of expressionism and that of Rabindranath, but he has transformed it to contain the contradictions of contemporary reality.
'Calcutta, Kolkata: It Never Begins, It Never Ends'
Phographs of Raghu Rai at The Harrington Street Art Centre. 9 Oct 13 Nov.
The 52 photographs of Kolkata taken between1989 and 2010 unveil the heart of the city in various aspects. The camera moves through the streets at various hours of the day, focuses on the dynamic life and livelihood of the people specially nearer to the soil, stops at different ghats of the river Hoogly, shows people at their morning rituals and activities, catches different moods of the city during its festivity with special emphasis on Durga Puja and its connected rituals, the sculpting of the image and its immersion in the river is meticulously delineated. Above all the artist bows down to the celebrities of the city, enters their study or studio to hold a glimpse of their enlightened moments. Thus we find Satyajit Roy, Mrinal Sen, Paritosh Sen, Mahashweta Devi, Aparna Sen in various moods in their interior. There are both black and white and colour prints, where naturalness is transcended towards high order of aesthetic celebration.
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