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Niki de Saint Phalle (Paperback)
Caroline Ugelstad; Text written by Kimberly Lamm, Bjarne Melgaard, Camille Morineau, Martine Hoff Jensen; Designed by …
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R777
Discovery Miles 7 770
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Using her own body as raw material for her artistic practice,
French artist ORLAN deconstructs the traditional iconography of the
feminine. In the 1990s, ORLAN caused a sensation with surgical
operations performed on her body, but it was as early as 1964, at
the age of 17, that she gave birth to her artistic self. Since
then, she has continuously recreated herself and keenly explored
the concept of identity. In her "carnal art," the body becomes both
subject and object. This publication traverses the six decades of
ORLAN's oeuvre, revisiting her early performances in particular.
One of her most recent creations is the ORLANOIDE robot, and thanks
to an augmented reality app, ORLAN avatars come to life and emerge
from this richly illustrated volume. The political status of the
body is made evident through all of her works: in 1989 she
transformed Gustave Courbet's famous painting L'origine du monde
into L'origine de la guerre by replacing the vulva with the
phallus. The statement has not lost any of its topicality.
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Niki De Saint Phalle (Hardcover)
Camille Morineau, Bloum Cardenas, Catherine Francblin; Illustrated by Niki De Saint-Phalle
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R2,040
R1,670
Discovery Miles 16 700
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This gorgeous volume offers the most complete overview in print of
the oeuvre of Niki de Saint Phalle, one of the most influential and
popular artists of the postwar period. The French-American artist
was educated according to the social codes of upper-class New York
society, but boldly rejected the expectations of her family to
instead choose a career in art. Moving to Paris in the 1960s, she
befriended the Nouveau Realiste artists Martial Raysse, Daniel
Spoerri and Jean Tinguely, creating her famous "Shooting
Paintings," the "Nanas" (brightly chromatic biomorphic sculptures
of female archetypes), as well as experimental films, decors and
costumes for ballet productions and collaborations with Tinguely,
Robert Rauschenberg and others. Saint Phalle was adept at using the
media to consolidate her public image, and soon became an icon of
the 1960s art scene, attaining a broad cultural profile that was
furthered by her numerous public art projects, including the Tarot
Garden in Tuscany and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris. This
superbly produced publication-which features a die-cut cover
through which Saint Phalle peers, aiming her gun-presents her works
in all media, along with ephemera and archival photographs
documenting her rich career and life.Niki de Saint Phalle
(1930-2002) was born near Paris and moved to the US in 1933. During
her teen years Saint Phalle was a fashion model and appeared on the
cover of "Life" in 1949 and, three years later, on the cover of
"French Vogue." At 18 Saint Phalle eloped with author Harry Mathews
and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later to Paris, where
she exhibited at the Alexander Iolas Gallery. In 1971 Saint Phalle
married Jean Tinguely, and throughout that decade created the
public sculptures and parks for which she became celebrated. Saint
Phalle died of emphysema in California in May 2002.
- First monograph on Elsa Sahal, a rising star of contemporary
ceramicsTrained at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts de
Paris in the atelier of Georges Jeanclos, Elsa Sahal quickly
focused on working with ceramics for their sensuality and
fragility. Former resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the
Ceramic Arts, in 2013 (Helena, MT), at Alfred University, New York
State College of Ceramics, in 2009-2010 (Alfred, NY) and at the
Manufacture Nationale de Sevres (2007-2008), Elsa Sahal has also
taught at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva and at the
Ecole Superieure d'Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg. She experiments
in particular with the idea of volume and balance in sculpture,
while returning to an exploration of the themes of the body and
femininity. Ambiguous, dense, sensual and colorful, her works
oscillate between anthropomorphic landscape and the landscaped
body, taking up Cezanne's dream of uniting women's curves with the
shoulders of hills. Elsa Sahal conceives, kneads and then produces
complex and disturbing forms sustained by dense colors and
sublimated through enamel. Winner of the MAIF prize for sculpture,
in 2008, and the contemporary sculpture prize awarded by the
Fondazione Francesco Messina, in 2007, Elsa Sahal has presented her
work in one-woman shows and group exhibitions in numerous museums
around the globe: at the Bonnefantenmuseum, 'Ceramix, Ceramic art
from Gauguin to Schutte', in 2015 (Maastricht); at the MAD Museum,
'Body and Soul, New International Ceramics', in 2013 (New York); at
the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 'Sculptures', in 2008 (Paris);
and at the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, in 2008 (Korea). Text in
English and French.
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