Niki de Saint Phalle The retrospective of ca. 100 works showcases the exceptional oeuvre of Niki de Saint Phalle, including early assemblages, action art and graphic works, the Nanas, the Tarot Garden and large, late sculptures. Big and bright, restrained and subtle Admission CHF 23.-/18.- (concessions and groups) inclusive Collection. Niki de Saint Phalle ( French pronunciation: [niki d (ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; [1] 29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French-American [5] [6] sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.
Gallery of The Fantastic Architecture of Niki de Saint Phalle 1
The French-born artist Niki de Saint Phalle gleaned much inspiration from the esoteric craft of Tarot, not only from its visual language and narrative potentiality, but in the way she. The following list of twenty-seven countries indicates in which museums Saint Phalle's work is currently located. From 2000 - 2002, the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany and the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC) in Nice, France were recipients of significant donations by Saint Phalle. The most significant number of. Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy At MoMA PS1 and Salon 94, the French-American artist gets long overdue attention for her boundary-defying architecture and public. "Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life," at moma PS1, is a ravishing and scandalously overdue New York museum show of the French-American avant-gardist, who died at the age of seventy-one.
Niki de Saint Phalle, Maison Dragon, 19735 ELEPHANT
The artist was a beautiful woman. Full mouth. Bette Davis eyes. She'd modeled for Vogue and other magazines before making art. And had a complicated life. Searching, tormented, obsessed, joyful.. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Niki de Saint Phalle beginning to build her first major permanent architectural venture, Le Rêve de L'Oiseau ( The Bird's Dream ). This project consists of three sculpture houses, built in the Var region of the south of France, for her friend Rainer von Hessen. April 11, 2016. The artist Niki de Saint Phalle intended the Tarot Garden, a fourteen-acre sculpture park built atop Etruscan ruins, to serve as both "a sort of joyland" and a demonstration. From the very outset of her career in the 1950s, Niki de Saint Phalle (American and French, 1930‒2002) defied artistic conventions, creating works that were overtly feminist, performative, collaborative, and monumental. Her first major US exhibition, Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life features over 200 works that highlight Saint Phalle's interdisciplinary approach and engagement.
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Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle French-American Painter, Sculptor, Performance, Conceptual, and Installation Artist Born: October 29, 1930 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France Died: May 21, 2002 - La Jolla, California, USA Movements and Styles: Nouveau Réalisme , Feminist Art , Performance Art , Conceptual Art , Modern Sculpture Niki de Saint Phalle, (born October 29, 1930, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France—died May 21, 2002, La Jolla, California, U.S.), French-American artist whose diverse practice encompassed a wide variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, performance, and film. Her work explores femininity, gender oppression, violence, and joy. Early life
An image of Niki de Saint Phalle's Big Head (1970) sculpture serves as a colorful slipcase for an exhibition held at two Tokyo locations. Exhibition curator Yoko Masuda opened a gallery of Saint Phalle's artwork called Space Niki, which eventually became The Niki Museum in Nasu Forest (1994-2009). Niki de Saint Phalle: exhibition sculptures. Niki de Saint Phalle, daughter of a French father and an American mother, grew up mainly in the United States. After leaving school she worked initially as a model, but at the age of eighteen ran away with Harry Mathews.. The show 'Jean Tinguely: Nachtschattengewächse' at the Kunst Haus Vienna in July of the same year was the last.
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Photographer Unknown. Niki de Saint Phalle was never an easy figure to pin down. She was an avant-garde iconoclast who was integral to the postwar art scene in France. She was an imaginative. Niki de Saint Phalle "Ready! On your marks! Red, yellow, blue, the painting weeps, the painting is dead. I've killed the painting." 1 So declared the self-taught artist Niki de Saint Phalle, who caught the attention of the French art scene and the popular press in February 1961 when she staged her first Tirs or Shooting Paintings.
