See also: De Saint-Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle , born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle , with Neuilly-sur-Seine in the Hauts-de-Seine, on October 29th, 1930 and deceased with San Diego on May 21st, 2002 was a French artist , plastician, painter, sculptor and film producer. Niki de Saint Phalle, was initially actress and did not follow artistic teaching, but started to paint in 1952. In 1961, it is member of the group of the realistic Nouveaux, just like Gerard Deschamps, César, Mimmo Rotella, Christo and Yves Klein. She was the wife of the artist Jean Tinguely.
Biography
Born in France, Niki de Saint Phalle followed his family to the United States following a stock exchange crash landing. Strongly disturbed by a incestueux father, she works initially like mannequin for Vogue , Life and She . Then it begins its artistic career, encouraged by the painter Hugh Weiss.
The Tirs , performances during which spectators are invited to draw with the rifle on pockets from color, thus splashing with the plaster assemblies, make it famous. It integrates the circle of the new then realistic , playing the role of mediator between the avant-gardes Frenchwoman and American. She creates ex-votos, then Nanas , women copious and coloured out of netting, papier-m4ach3e and polyester.
Its later works like the Fountain Igor Stravinski in Paris in front of Beaubourg, the Garden of the Tarots to Capalbio in Tuscany, or the Meta-Tinguely in homage to her missing husband, mix poetry and humor, spirit of the play and distresses. Engaged in association AIDS, she succumbs to a respiratory disease related to the toxic vapors inhaled during the preparation of her works.
the Shootings
In 1961 date of its first exposure, it is made famous while carrying out the Tirs : fixed on a board, filled up tubes of colors are covered with plaster and are bored using shootings with the rifle. This new manner of painting the lance on the international artistic scene.
the Chicks
It explores the artistic representation of the role of the woman and produces headstocks size-nature. These women take consistency gradually and become the Nanas . A series is in fixed permanent exposure to the same place where the flea market of Hanover (Germany) settles.
Its collaboration with Jean Tinguely
Divorced the writer Harry Mathews, she marries the July 13rd 1971, Jean Tinguely, itself recently divorced his wife Eva Aeppli.
Their artistic collaboration will produce in particular Cyclop with Milly-the-Forest, the Fontaine Stravinski with Paris, the fountain of Castle-Chinon and the Jardin of the Tarots to Capalbio in Italy. From June in September 1966, it realizes with the assistance of Jean Tinguely, Hon/It , a 28 m length monumental woman on 6 m height and 9 m width, lying on the back with the legs interlaced with the Moderna Museet of Stockholm. The visitors can penetrate the sculpture by the between-legs. Inside, they can discover several parts carried out by the artist.
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