Niki de Saint Phalle "A Retrospective Exhibition 1960-2002: Her Art, Her Truth, Her Fantasy"
Nohra Haime Gallery
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A major retrospective exhibition spanning 44 years by Niki de Saint Phalle presents a comprehensive survey of the artist’s career, including key examples of her different phases from 1960 well into 2002. This retrospective brings together the various facets of Saint Phalle’s oeuvre – from the aggressiveness and harshness of her early work to the more jaunty and balanced nature of her later work. Viewers are confronted with contradictions of past and present, love and hate, fantasy and reality, chaos and harmony, protest and liberation, and grief and celebration. Saint Phalle’s art is a reflection of her dark, yet extravagant personal history. After having a nervous breakdown and receiving electric shocks in a psychiatric hospital in 1953, she began painting as a form of self-therapy to express her fear and rage. But as in fairy-tale ending, Saint Phalle countered her demons and embraced magic and color of life through art – the path she followed to do so is palpable in the exhibition.
[Image: Niki de Saint Phalle "Tir Aux Ciseaux" (1961) © 2011 Niki Charitable Art Foundation, All rights reserved. Photo: Laurent Condominas.]
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Schedule
from September 07, 2011 to October 29, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00