Niki de Saint Phalle

Best known for her sculptural female figures known as “Nanas”, Niki de Saint Phalle created these figures as sculpted embodied of the feminist spirit. Saint Phalle was French artist born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle on October 29, 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She was a self-taught artist who first began making art as a form of therapy.

Early in her career, de Saint Phalle became inspired by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí while on vacation in Spain. She wanted to make work based on his famed public park design, Parc Güell. Completed over two decades, de Saint Phalle’s ‘Il Giardino dei Tarocchi’ (The Tarot Garden) was filled with 22 of her signature monuments and is located in Tuscany. “It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy,” she once mused.

The original vintage posters designed by Niki Saint de Phall are just as joyus and colourful as her large scale sculptures. Her almost child-like aethetic is at fist glance effortless and playful, though Phall herself has said that “everything’s in there… it’s probably good that people don’t really know what they’re looking at”.

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