Niki de Saint Phalle: exhibition at the Guggenheim in Bilbao

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Niki de Saint Phalle

Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle, best known as Niki de Saint Phalle (29th of October of 1930 - 21st of May of 2002) She was a famous French sculptor, painter and filmmaker, and Jean Tinguely’s wife, who was also sculptor and painter.

She went to the USA in 1933, where she worked as a model in her adolescence.

In 1962 she participated in the exhibition “The Art of the Assembly” in the Museum of Modern Art of New York. In 1964 she started to create a work series titled “Nanas”, female figures of voluptuous shapes and vivid colors.  In the same series, in 1964, the made the biggest woman’s sculpture in the art history, called “Hon”, that means “She” in Swedish. She built the “The Tarot Garden” in 1979, which is a sculpture garden near Florence, Italy.

In 1982, with her husband Jean Tinguely, made the “Stravinsky Fountain” (or “Fontaine des automates”) nearby the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

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