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Rock Garden of Chandigarh

Rock Garden of Chandigarh

Also known as Nek Chand Rock Garden

Landscape architect

Nek Chand

Year

1976

Style

Outsider Art

Type

landscape

Nek Chand Saini, a government public works inspector with no formal art training, began assembling sculptures in his spare time on government forest land near the Capitol Complex in 1957, in a city whose master plan had no place for him.…

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  1. 1976

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