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sculptures made with the artist Jean Tinguely. Beginning
in the late 1960s, Saint Phalle starting making large-scale
sculptures, which led to an expansion of her practice into
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE architectural projects, sculpture gardens, books, prints,

The Museum of Modern Art | PS1 films, theater sets, clothing, jewelry, and, famously, her
own perfume.

From this period forward, Saint Phalle also created
MoMA PS1 will present the first New York museum a series of innovative works that reflect an ethos of
exhibition of the work of visionary feminist and activist collaboration and engagement with the politics of social
artist Niki de Saint Phalle (American and French, space. Addressing subjects that ranged from women’s
1930‒2002). On view from April 5 to September 7, 2020, rights to climate change and HIV/AIDS awareness, Saint
the exhibition will feature over 100 works created from Phalle was often at the vanguard in addressing the
the 1970s until the artist’s death, including sculptures, social and political issues of her time. Her illustrated
prints, drawings, jewelry, and archival material. book, AIDS: You Can’t Catch It Holding Hands (1986),
Highlighting Saint Phalle’s interdisciplinary approach written in collaboration with Dr. Silvio Barandun, worked
and engagement with key social and political issues, to destigmatize the disease and was translated into six
the exhibition will focus on works that she created to languages.
transform environments, individuals, and society.
Central to the exhibition is an examination of Saint

Early in her career, Saint Phalle pushed against accepted Phalle’s large-scale outdoor sculptures and architectural
artistic practices, creating work that used assemblage projects, including three houses built for Rainer von Diez
and performative modes of production. Collaboration was between 1969 and 1971; Queen Califia’s Magical Circle,
always central to her work, including several co-authored a sculpture park in Escondido, CA; the monumental

Niki de Saint Phalle. Tarot Garden, Garavicchio, Italy. © 2019 FONDAZIONE IL
GIARDINO DEI TAROCCHI. Photo: Peter Granser

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