Solo exhibition at STUDIO21 as a conclusion of my three month residency at Calcutta Art Research Foundation (CARF) in India by the Mondriaan Fund.

From the moment I arrived in India I had the feeling I stept into a rollercoaster. There was always something happening and it felt like the world was held together by a few strings, but it was working out just perfectly. Looking back at these period it seems like a far away dream. 

What I showed at Studio21 was just a glimpse of the whole spectacle and experience I had in Kolkata. In the morning you never knew where, or with what, you would end up in the evening. It sometimes was a big challenge to get anything done.

During the whole period in Kolkata I made several casts of the walls in Kolkata and noted their GPS locations, making a sort of map out of them. The walls had stones put into them to prevent people from putting posters on them. In some raw way I found them repellently beautiful and showed them in the exhibition. Later on I made new copies of them when I was back in The Netherlands. Also, I showed a few SUPER and LIFE brick works together with some small clay figures, that where inspired by a potato company logo that was on a jute bag lying around in the streets, saying: INDIAN POTATO HOUSE. The room was lit by a self made chandelier, inspired by the hawkers that sell there merchandise on the streets, with a white shirt as hommage to the working man, where I printed all kinds of graphics on that I encountered during my stay in Kolkata.

Many thanks to Sumantra Mukherjee, Manas Acharya, Praneet Soi, Studio21, CIMA gallery, Mondriaan Fund and everyone who has helped me out, and that I've met along the way.

For the occasion of the residency I made a visual sketch blog during my stay in Kolkata at www.doornstruikrover.tumblr.com