Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux eclates

This surprising and visually immersive catalogue appears in conjunction with an exhibition at galleries in Paris and New York devoted to artist Niki de Saint Phalle's 'Tableaux eclates' (Burst paintings), a vast series of works created as an homage to Jean Tinguely after his death. From 1992 onwards, De Saint Phalle decided to take up movement as her subject. Drawing on Tinguely's "Meta-reliefs" formula while developing her own themes and plastic visual language, the paintings are composed of cut-out shapes which approach the concept of movement as plural - between works that move on their own, those that can be activated, or those modified by the viewer's own retina.