CRITIQUE – A great character, between the fairy of the tales and the intrepid pirate, this well -born artist was of disconcerting freedom. At the Grand Palais, she finds her great love, Jean Tinguely, and her accomplice, Pontus Hulten.
Niki de Saint Phalle, victory (Nikéin Greek). That she takes her voice as “duchess” to impose on her audience by her perfect mastery of herself or that she explodes of youth and vitality, claims to want to “Make great and great things”, To explode the world with its artist bombs, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) has this theatrical virtue which inhabits the heroines.
This ingenious in pale pink face which poses on the front page of Vogue of the 1950s is also this Nana On the body XXL, with a very present sex, with wrestling thighs, with a nourishing chest. She is also this dragon whose body is an accumulation of small toys and whose strength is superhuman, this animal spring from her child’s nightmares which she recreates in her work, her sculpture, her films. Joy of colors, obsession with the story, art of tale in pictures and in words, Niki de Saint Phalle is superstar in this large restored palace which reopens with it.
A self -taught artist
Niki is a self -taught artist with Pedigree…
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