Niki de Saint Phalle The 1980s and 1990s: Art Unleashed

The Niki de Saint Phalle – The 1980s and 1990s: Art Unleashed exhibition will be devoted to the work of Niki de Saint Phalle in the last two decades of her life, starting in 1978 when the French-American artist launched the monumental Tarot Garden in Italy.

She achieved recognition in the 1960s and 1970s for Shots, paintings produced by shooting at the canvases with a rifle, for her participation in the new realism movement, and her emblematic Nanas. The time has come to focus on her late work.

This period is often neglected in artists’ careers, even more so among women. During these years, Niki de Saint Phalle enjoyed considerable freedom of expression but also the financial freedom that an innovative, exemplary entrepreneurship model afforded her.