The mysterious amalgamation of past and present ingrained in visual reality of Kolkata was very meticulously represented in these photographs. Another important event was launch of a book ‘Art Now A Glimpse: Collectors series I’ at Emami Chisel Art containing paintings of ten artists. A show of their works was also held from 23 April to 7 May. The artists included were Partha Pratim Deb, Tapas Konar, Aditya Basak, Jayashree Chakravarty, Sekhar Roy, Amitabha Dhar, Chandra Bhattacharya, Chhatrapati Dutta, Sunil De and Samindranath Majumdar. A sculpture show of Manjushri Chakraborty and Some Kumar Deb at Academy of Fine Arts from 1 to 7 needs to be mentioned. The ceramics of Manjushri were really exciting. Recent works of Prasun Roy were presented at Mon till 10. Weavers Studio hosted a show of Paresh Hazra titled ‘Medini Matir Kanna’ till 11. Pranabranjan Roy curated a show at Gallery Kolkata on the theme ‘Images of One’s Self’. The watercolours of Sekhar Baran Karmakar at Gandhara indicated enormous possibility of this young talent from Santinikatan. A retrospective of Tarun Dey was held at Yapanchitra. Sanskriti presented ‘The Street’, an exhibition of paintings by Yusuf Arrakal. Three days’ Signature Art Festival held at newly built Avani Signature Building of Park Street was an important event in the art environment of Kolkata. Various galleries and artists group joined it to make it jubilant and colourful.
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