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Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life
Until 6 September at MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens
Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 represents the first ever New York museum show for
The first solo museum show in New York devoted to the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle features art and ephemera from the wildly prolific artist, who worked across an array of mediums but is perhaps best known for her large, ebullient sculptures of women. In addition to sculptures, paintings, lithographs and jewellery, the real treat of the exhibition are the maquettes, photographs, and process videos from some of Saint Phalle’s most ambitious public projects, including playgrounds in Belgium and Jerusalem and a fountain in Paris. Among them are videos, photographs, drawings, models and other ephemera documenting the construction of Tarot Garden, Saint Phalle’s magnum opus which takes the form of a massive architectural park and sculpture garden outside of Rome, which the artist work
Look the girl in the eyes.
What do you see?
Is there boldness in them? Apprehension? Joy? Fear?
The more you meet the gaze of the girls and boys in Deborah Roberts compelling, challenging collages, the more you see. In these Black children you discover a multiplicity of feelings and attitudes, youth and age fused together, symbols at once seemingly innocuous and racist. In them you may see something about the child or something about how society views the child. Or you may see something about yourself.
This is all because of the care with which Roberts creates her works, how she positions each figure, the posture and demeanor telling one story; clothes each one, layering on color, print, and pattern (its own story); and, most dramatically, constructs each face of different photographs – say, one eye of a young girl, the other of a middle-aged man, the lips of a mature woman – the faces telling many stories, all of them complex.
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