The exhibition Kolkata: Run in the Alley offers a unique vision of the metropolis Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta) in India. The project stems from the art in residence project CARF, which in recent years brought a series of Netherlands-based artists to Kolkata to explore the city under the guidance of Bengal artists. During the work periods, the visiting and Bengal artists befriended each other. In Marres, they make a joint exhibition where they merge techniques, disciplines, and perspectives to create an intensely layered image of the city, in which bamboo scaffolding scenography, dokra-inspired bronze sculptures, cardboard-pulp furniture, accordion books, scrolls, tapestries and drawings are interwoven. Additionally, works by masters such as Binode Bihari Mukherjee, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, Ganesh Haloi, Somnath Hore, as well as historical pieces by the fashion designer Riten Mozumdar are on display. Most the Indian artists are exhibiting in the Netherlands for the first time.
Kolkata: Run in the Alley is curated by Praneet Soi and Manuel Klappe.
Artists
Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Tim Breukers, Arunima Choudhury, Gautam Choudhury, Sarbari Roy Choudhury, Bonno van Doorn, Sanchayan Ghosh, Nobina Gupta, Ganesh Haloi, Somnath Hore, Henri Jacobs, Manuel Klappe, Maartje Korstanje, Sachi Miyachi, Riten Mozumdar, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Sumantra Mukherjee, Ruchama Noorda, Srikanta Paul, Ganesh Pyne, Piyali Sadhukhan & Saumik Chakraborty, Ushmita Sahu, Amritah Sen, Sarbajit Sen, Paula Sengupta, Praneet Soi, Arthur Stokvis and Koen Taselaar
As part of the exhibition, Lumière Maastricht shows a film program with three film classics from the metropolis of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta). The three films screened were included in the list of the 250 greatest films of all time by the British film magazine Sight & Sound.
