Architect and artist Martand Khosla’s latest show is a witness to the possibilities in cities | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Architect and artist Martand Khosla’s latest show is a witness to the possibilities in cities | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: September 4, 2019 8:28:16 am

Architect and artist Martand Khosla’s latest show is a witness to the possibilities in cities

In his latest solo show, Delhi-based Khosla continues to engage with the idea of a city from different perspectives, following his previous trysts motivated by the lives of labourers and construction sites and materials.

The exhibition presents different layers of the city, its narratives, buildings, connections of livelihood

For most children who grew up in the ’90s, a common evening ritual comprised watching the popular animated sitcom The Jetsons on Cartoon Network, which first premiered in 1962. Flying cars and spaceships transported the family from one sky-high building to another, giving everyone a glimpse of what the future could be. Interestingly, many of the gadgets and elements that featured in its episodes are now a reality, be it flat screen TVs or video chats, watching a Flintstone cartoon on a smartwatch or reading a digital newspaper. Architect-artist Martand Khosla’s sketch of a drone view of jaw-dropping skyscrapers hanging in the air in Radiant City (Stage 1) in his exhibition “1:2500 (One is to Twenty-Five Hundred)” at Nature Morte gallery is a drive down a similar route.