Niki de Saint Phalle / editor, Caroline Ugelstad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ugelstad, Caroline, editor.

Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002.

Henie-Onstad kunstsenter, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002--Exhibitions.

Saint-Phalle, Niki de.

Women artists--France--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Women artists.

Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Hovikodden, Norge : Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword / Christoph Becker

Introduction / Christoph Becker

Niki de Saint Phalle : Work and Life

Salut les Copains! / Bice Curiger

Chapter 1 : 1955-1961, Figure and Fetish / Christoph Becker

Dear Niki de Saint Phalle / Mickry 3

Chapter 2 : 1961-1965, Destruction, Creation, and Happening / Christoph Becker

She Followed Her Instincts / Monster Chetwynd

Niki de Saint Phalle, My Hero! / Shana Moulton

Chapter 3 : 1965-1975, Deconstruction of the Sensual / Christoph Becker

"I Would Show Everything" : (De-)Sexualization of the Naked Body as a Strategy of Self-Empowerment / Cathérine Hug

Three Grottoes / Nicolas Party

Chapter 4 : 1970-1990, Provocation and Impertinence / Christoph Becker

Thoughts on Niki de Saint Phalle : In Conversation with Laure Prouvost / Katherina Dohm

Chapter 5 : 1980-2000, Revolt and Freedom / Christoph Becker

The Tarot Garden : A Dialogue between Nature, Humans, and Sculpture / Sandra Gianfreda

Niki, Jean, and Switzerland / Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold

"It Was Happening!" : In Conversation with Seppi Imhof / Rhiannon Ash.

Notes:

Catalogue accompanies the exhibition held at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 16 September 2022-12 February 2023.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, September 16, 2022 - February 12, 2023.

Contains:

Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9788282940412

8282940410

OCLC:

1346476208