Niki de Saint Phalle was an artist whose career spanned five decades. She was widely recognized for her naively decorated sculptures. Her mythology, feminist ideology, creative energy, and personal anxieties were poured into her work, making for rich and magical creations.
This is a celebratory book on the works of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), an artist who through her work explored female roles in society and myth. Her work is made distinctly personal by the artist's own handwritten comments and whimsical sketches
Si la vie est un jeu de cartes, nous sommes nés sans connaître les règles et nous devons jouer notre main. Le tarot est-il seulement un jeu de cartes ou y a-t-il une philosophie derrière ?
Niki de Saint Phalle's sensual Nanas--buxom, colorful female figures--laid the foundation for her international success beyond the art world. But the self-taught artist's creative spectrum is much broader, and her unconventional oeuvre, ranging from painting and drawing to assemblages, performances, theater, film, and architecture, is more subversive and critical of society than is widely assumed. Based on her efforts to process her own feelings, she addressed social and political issues, critically questioning institutions and role models in ways that are as relevant today as they have ever been. This exhibition and the publication shed new light on the artist's exceptional personality and uncover the wide-ranging oeuvre of the popular outsider
Vom Händchenhalten kriegt man's nicht
