The Aicon Gallery will play hosts to the exhibitions named 'Archetype' till October 17.
In the gallery's ground floor, Avikunthak presents the 18-minute-long 16 mm film "Endnote (Antaral)" that follows three women who reminisce about their time at school and affirm their old friendships with each other. However, each also shares a secret with one another about the third, a secret that is never made known to the viewer.
The narrative is based on Samuel Beckett's short play "Come and Go". The first half of "Endnote" might be seen as a deconstruction of Beckett, with the second part, a reconstruction.
Avikunthak is an experimental filmmaker who has been making films in India from the mid-1990s and splits his time between Kolkata and Yale University where he teaches.
Burman is exhibiting a selection of recent paintings in the lower ground floor of the gallery. Born in 1935 in Kolkata, Burman presents imagery that veers between the dream-like, the mythic and the hallucinatory. The pictorial space on his canvases are filled with dense, intensely coloured, textural detail.
Published 17 September 2009, 03:32 IST