The first exhibition of the research that surveyed and catalogued Nek Chand’s Rock Garden in Chandigarh. Before this project only limited plans of the garden existed; over three years it was measured, drawn and photographed, and every sculpture and natural rock on display was catalogued.
The exhibition brought together the survey drawings, a virtual-reality model and a short film shot in the garden, with sculptures made in the Rock Garden that had not been exhibited before. The full catalogue was shown too, so that the garden’s entire contents could be seen outside Chandigarh for the first time. It was accompanied by the book of the same name, published by Liverpool University Press.
A Nek Chand sculpture before the survey drawings and site photographsThe catalogue corridor, lined with photographs of the garden’s figures and rocksFaces of the Rock Garden figuresPhotographs from the catalogue of the garden’s natural rocksNek Chand’s fabric figuresThe timber display structure, with shelves of photographsA survey drawing above a mosaic figurePress cuttings, and cases of collected bangles and stonesThe arch and shelving of the display structureTwo figures on the terrace at the Liverpool School of Architecture, before installation at the gallery
