Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux eclates
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by Marianne Le Métayer ed.
This surprising and visually immersive catalog appears in conjunction with an exhibition at galleries in Paris and New York devoted to artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s ‘Tableaux éclates’ (Burst paintings), a vast series of works created as an homage to Jean Tinguely after his death. From 1992 onwards, De Saint Phalle decided to take up movement as her subject. Drawing on Tinguely’s “Méta-reliefs” formula while developing her own themes and plastic visual language, the paintings are composed of cut-out shapes that approach the concept of movement as plural – between works that move on their own, those that can be activated, or those modified by the viewer’s retina.
The work was presented at the ARC in 1993 during the retrospective of the artist orchestrated by Suzanne Pagé and exhibited for the first time in a gallery in France in 2023. The pop-up cover of this book allows you to recompose the pattern of a painting with pull tabs!
In French and English.
Les Presse Du Reel, 2024, hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 120 pages.
