Report by Santanu Ganguly, New Delhi: Following the fantastic popular and critical success of the multi-disciplinary pop-up “Lateral,” curated by Heidi Fichtner, KONA is pleased to host the last and final 2-day appearance of the exhibition. With a newly configured group of contemporary artists working in a variety of media, “Lateral” spans three generations of art practitioners from a variety of fields. It includes painting, photographer, drawing, sculpture, video and installation.
With the departure of the group of French art students who enlivened the empty shops and corridors last weekend, taking their works along with them, Lateral springs into a new avatar with the 16 remaining participants alongside an additional 5 or 6 artists working in sculpture, drawing, photography and textiles.
Inspired by the rough and ready ambiance of a beautifully derelict maze of empty shops at the Jor Bagh market Lateral took the flexible spaces of KONA and a chance web of inter-generational exchanges and friendships as its central raison d’être.
Initially motivated by the search for a space where seven French MA-level art students on a three-month residency in Delhi could work in situ to develop their final projects, Lateral has grown into a cross-section of very young, emerging and more established practitioners.
Lateral has no particular thematic or conceptual underpinning. Rather, the form of the exhibition and selection of participants have developed organically from the curator’s chance opportunity to situate the students’ work and that of other very young artists in a laboratory-like setting. The exhibition has also been informed by the work of a handful of more mature artists – emerging generation and more established - who have contributed to the students experience in Delhi as well as that of other cultural practitioners not usually perceived as artists but whose work merits viewing.
Rather than following a particular thematic then, “Lateral” has become a process; a laboratory for learning on the ground for the students and some of the other young artists participating, an exercise in speed for all concerned, and a foray into a contemporary alternative form of exhibition making, the two-day, two-weekend pop up.
“Lateral” will wind through the entire two floors of KONA. On Sunday, April 27th, “Lateral” makes way for another pilot week of Delhi’s newest organic famer’s market, running concurrent to the exhibition in overlapping spaces.
Artists: Shaheen Ahmed,Sudeep Choudhuri, Daku, Anita Dube, Rehaan Engineer, Hora, Parul Gupta, Sukanya Ghosh,Martand Khosla, Anne Maniglier, Mayank Mansingh Kaul, Uzma Mohsin, AdityaPande, Manisha Parekh, AkshayRathore, Shweta, PradipSaha, Hemant Sareen, JulienSegard, Gagandeep Singh, Himali Singh Soin, Apnavi Thacker, AsimWaqif
About the Curator: Heidi Fichtner is a Delhi-based curator. Prior to settling in India in 2007 she worked in artists’ studios, at Dia Center for the Arts, Marion Goodman gallery, Art Forum Berlin, FIAC and galerie Jousse Entreprise. She has lived and worked in New York, Berlin and Paris. She has collaborated in India with Nature Morte, Bose Pacia Kolkata, Project 88, Mumbai and Seven Art, Delhi, where she was Program Director in 2011-12. At present she is on the curatorial committee for the 2013 edition of the United Art Fair, is co-curating a residency and exhibition in Melbourne and is mentoring a group of French art students, among other projects.
The final weekend: Saturday, April 27 & Sunday, April 28
Mon & Tues April 29 & 30 - by appointment
PANEL DISCUSSION: Alternative and transient spaces for art – Visions & Strategies, Sunday, April 28 at 6.30 pm
Speakers: Sonya Fatah, Heidi Fichtner (moderator),
Akshay Mahajan, Aditya Pande, Julien Segard, others to be confirmed
KONA is located at 1, Jor Bagh Market, Delhi, 110003
With the departure of the group of French art students who enlivened the empty shops and corridors last weekend, taking their works along with them, Lateral springs into a new avatar with the 16 remaining participants alongside an additional 5 or 6 artists working in sculpture, drawing, photography and textiles.
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| ‘Lateral’ Pop-up Art Exhibition |
Initially motivated by the search for a space where seven French MA-level art students on a three-month residency in Delhi could work in situ to develop their final projects, Lateral has grown into a cross-section of very young, emerging and more established practitioners.
Lateral has no particular thematic or conceptual underpinning. Rather, the form of the exhibition and selection of participants have developed organically from the curator’s chance opportunity to situate the students’ work and that of other very young artists in a laboratory-like setting. The exhibition has also been informed by the work of a handful of more mature artists – emerging generation and more established - who have contributed to the students experience in Delhi as well as that of other cultural practitioners not usually perceived as artists but whose work merits viewing.
Rather than following a particular thematic then, “Lateral” has become a process; a laboratory for learning on the ground for the students and some of the other young artists participating, an exercise in speed for all concerned, and a foray into a contemporary alternative form of exhibition making, the two-day, two-weekend pop up.
“Lateral” will wind through the entire two floors of KONA. On Sunday, April 27th, “Lateral” makes way for another pilot week of Delhi’s newest organic famer’s market, running concurrent to the exhibition in overlapping spaces.
Artists: Shaheen Ahmed,Sudeep Choudhuri, Daku, Anita Dube, Rehaan Engineer, Hora, Parul Gupta, Sukanya Ghosh,Martand Khosla, Anne Maniglier, Mayank Mansingh Kaul, Uzma Mohsin, AdityaPande, Manisha Parekh, AkshayRathore, Shweta, PradipSaha, Hemant Sareen, JulienSegard, Gagandeep Singh, Himali Singh Soin, Apnavi Thacker, AsimWaqif
About the Curator: Heidi Fichtner is a Delhi-based curator. Prior to settling in India in 2007 she worked in artists’ studios, at Dia Center for the Arts, Marion Goodman gallery, Art Forum Berlin, FIAC and galerie Jousse Entreprise. She has lived and worked in New York, Berlin and Paris. She has collaborated in India with Nature Morte, Bose Pacia Kolkata, Project 88, Mumbai and Seven Art, Delhi, where she was Program Director in 2011-12. At present she is on the curatorial committee for the 2013 edition of the United Art Fair, is co-curating a residency and exhibition in Melbourne and is mentoring a group of French art students, among other projects.
The final weekend: Saturday, April 27 & Sunday, April 28
Mon & Tues April 29 & 30 - by appointment
PANEL DISCUSSION: Alternative and transient spaces for art – Visions & Strategies, Sunday, April 28 at 6.30 pm
Speakers: Sonya Fatah, Heidi Fichtner (moderator),
Akshay Mahajan, Aditya Pande, Julien Segard, others to be confirmed
KONA is located at 1, Jor Bagh Market, Delhi, 110003
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