EFE. It is the first major exhibition of the season the Bilbao center, which aims to discover its visitors the multifaceted work of an unknown artist so far in Spain, where he is the first ever held a major retrospective, comprising over 200 works and archival documents, many of them unpublished.
The exhibition, organized chronologically and thematic, occupies over 2,000 square meters on the third floor of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It is driven by the Meeting des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais in Paris and curated by the French Camille Morineau and Spanish Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya.
Morineau was the curator of the recent retrospective that the Grand Palais in Paris dedicated the artist, who was visited by 588,000 people and is the basis of the exhibition mounted now at the Guggenheim.
The sample was presented today by the director of the Guggenheim Museum, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Commissioners and by Bloum Cárdenas, granddaughter of an artist whose work was exhibited in life in Europe, Japan, North and Latin America, where he gave her a huge retrospective in 1998 traveled to various countries.
With a career begins in 1950 and lasts until early this century, Niki de Saint Phalle is internationally known for his famous series of Nanas, made in the early 60s of last century, in which, in a style very close to Pop Art , plasma his personal vision of the female body.
The work also contains a strong criticism of aesthetic and social canons of the predominant role of women in that time and offered the view from his perspective woman marriage, motherhood, etc.
His role as feminist activist can also be seen in Brides, Births, and devouring Mother Goddesses series, next to the famous Nanas make her feminist universe.
Another of the cornerstones of his work is the series of paintings entitled Shooting with which ranks as one of the founders of the happenings theater-experience that combines improvisation and provocation and that was very disruptive and shocking for its time by the violence, according to critics of the time, distilled these pictures.
These paintings were done by filling plaster with paint balls and firing on them with a rifle, causing a burst of color that was reflected on white canvas.
The Guggenheim Museum has recreated the room that houses these works, the emotional atmosphere that exudes this creative action.
The Shooting become social denunciation of his unjust trial, as the patriarchal society and the political situation in the 60s, in which lived the Cold War in Europe situations and Algeria in France, and were also directed against the traditional view of art and religion.
The third cornerstone of the work of French artist, who reflects in his works influenced by Catalan architect Gaudí, especially struck him visiting the Park Guell, Barcelona; Americans Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschengberg and French Jean Dubuffet, is the public work.
Niki de Saint Phalle created throughout his career monumental sculptures, fountains, playgrounds and public gardens with the aim of bringing art to children and those who could not access the museums.
In addition to the most emblematic works of the career of the French artist, who lived his last years in California, where he also was influenced by the colorful Mexican art -a country he visited on several occasions, exposing the viewer Bilbao about his engravings, performances and experimental films in which the author discusses his own work.
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