Niki de Saint Phalle
dal 31/1/2008 al 4/5/2008
Segnalato da
31/1/2008
Niki de Saint Phalle
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
The first UK exhibition of the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Beautiful, flamboyant, daring, provocative and fiercely independent, she emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the highly masculine international arts world. The exhibition will include her acclaimed Shooting Pictures 1961 and larger sculptural works.
Tate Liverpool will present the first UK exhibition of the work of Franco-American
painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle since her death in 2002. The exhibition
presents a comprehensive survey of the artist’s entire career and will include key
examples from all phases of her work; from her early assemblages and paintings in
the 1950s, her acclaimed Shooting Paintings in the early 1960s, her religious altars
and bride sculptures in the mid 1960s, the Nanas and larger sculptural works, a wide
selection of graphic work, to her late works including drawings and model sculptures
from her
Tarot Garden.
Beautiful, flamboyant, daring, provocative and fiercely independent, Niki de Saint
Phalle emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the masculine
international arts world centred around Paris. Yet despite her association with the
Nouveau Réalistes, and a number of collaborations with many of the world’s leading
artists and her marriage to Jean Tinguely, her work has been overlooked, or
dismissed as merely playful. A believer in mythology and fairytales, her work is
bright and colourful, demonstrating an exuberant love of life, at the same time
revealing a certain darkness. This exhibition, a wide-ranging presentation of the
work and exploration of her themes and concerns, will attempt to address this
oversight and bring her work to a wider audience.
Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation with additional support from the French Institute
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock L3 - Liverpool