Nek Chand’s Outsider Art, Paris, Flammarion, 2005.


Nek Chand’s Outsider Art, Paris, Flammarion, 2005.

Written by Lucienne Peiry in

12 octobre 2006

Over forty years ago, Nek Chand worked as a road inspector in northern India. Each evening after work, he mounted his bicycle and carried – by the hundreds – stones that he found in the foothills of the Himalayas. In an abandoned jungle clearing, He built sculptures by combing these stones – which he believed possessed a soul – with urban debris: corroded wires, used sheet metal, detached bicycle parts, broken bracelets, and abandoned tubes and tires. He created a „kingdom of gods and goddesses“, peopled by characters and animals. Today this kingdom covers more than thirty acres.

Lucienne Peiry et Philippe Lespinasse, avec des textes de John Maizels et Francesca Gemnetti.
Éditions Flammarion, Paris, 2005.
160 pages, 150 illustrations.
Langue : anglais.
ISBN : 978-2080305183


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