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Dialogos/Dialogue

Interventions at IIC

by Luciano Matus and Hector Zamora

11^th to 20^th December 2005

 

India International Centre is a landmark in the cultural and architectural
space of Delhi, where the structure is characterized by the careful
relationship of indoor and outdoor spaces facilitating free flow of
knowledge through people from all walks of life who gather here.


The idea of embarking on a project in the India International Centre (IIC)
has arisen from the intermittent series of visits by Mexican plastic artists
and architects to the IIC. All of them have held interesting reflections on
the architecture and the concept of this cultural Centre.

This reflection is established as a parallel to the space specific analysis
of the Centre in which the architect Joseph Stein achieved, brilliantly, to
integrate elements like the t raditional north Indian jali or the lattice
work, lily pools and gardens in the functional and pragmatic structure
specific to his time.

The preamble to the intervention project at the IIC  was given with a
presentation of videos by Mexican artist Rubén Gutiérrez at Volga restaurant
as a reference to the "Saturday Club¨ created by Alfred Evan Charlton at
Volga in the  middle  fifties, which some people say it was among the
members of that Volga club where the IIC was original conceived

This awareness of the India International Centre by Mexicans has resulted
also in a formal proposal created by two contemporary Mexican artists,
Luciano Matus and Hector Zamora. After six months of space-specific
analysis, they have proposed through subtle interventions an exercise to
establish a dialogue with the different elements of the structure and the
space itself.


Using the traditional tecniques of the tent wallas, Zamora will generate in
collaboration with them and another mexican architect, Esteban García, a
tridemensional exercise which will transform the perception of the space.
The way in which this structure will delimit the garden will certainly
provoque a pause in the everyday transit of the people who usually inhabits
the gardens at the IIC.



While Luciano will work on the concept of the  jali setting up a question in
relation with the acronym name given to the Centre. The question will remain
open to the way  ;viewers experience his exercises in this present project and
forthcoming interventions in India.



Both artists have been working in several museums, cultural and
archeological spaces from all over the world.



It is in this context that we request your company for the opening of
Dialogos/Dialogue
on December 11th at 12:30 at the Rose Garden of the IIC. We will have the
presence of Mrs. Neena Ranjan, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of
India; H.E. Mr. Rogelio Ganguillhome, Ambassador of Mexico; and Mr. Soli J.
Sorabjee, President, IIC.


This event Dialogos/Dialogue means much more than the dictionary
definition of the word itself: "conversation of two or more people" rather
it is a multi-dimensional dialogue between people, spaces, culture, ages,
mediums etc.

Organized by Mexican Embassy and India Internatio nal Centre

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