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The artist's vividly painted and voluptuous sculptures of women are only part of her trailblazing oeuvre ahead of its time, writes DW's Brenda Haas.
Johanna Fateman on the art of Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle, Tarot Garden, 1979–2002, mixed media. Installation view, Garavicchio, Italy, 2017. Photo: Valerio Mei/Alamy. © Niki Charitable Art Foundation. “IF TODAY I CONSIDER MYSELF almost the only poet, the only sculptor capable of creating something poetic, it’s precisely because I’m a woman,” the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle announced to Vogue Paris in 1965. “Men with their rockets, their atomic bomb, and all that filth they’ve dumped on us . . . they’ve ...