The exhibition invites you to explore the last two decades of the work of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002), starting from 1978, when she launched the monumental Tarot Garden project in Italy.
While the artist came to fame in the 1960s and ‘70s for her Tirs (paintings made by shooting canvas with a rifle), her involvement in the Nouveau Réalisme movement, and her emblematic Nanas, she also produced a prolific body of late work. This is the period of her life that we want you to discover.
Female artists’ late work is often overlooked, but in Niki de Saint Phalle’s case, these years were distinguished by remarkable freedom, both in her words and in her artistic practice.
She also enjoyed financial freedom thanks to her daring entrepreneurial model, and wanted to make art accessible to everyone in an effort to transform everyday life into something exceptional.
