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Biography
Sculptor, writer, stage designer and director of French nationality, despite having spent the first twenty years of her life in the United States. On her return to Europe, she began working according to a style very close to Art Brut. She achieved public recognition through the creation of the series Shots (1960-61), through which she became associated with Nouveau Réalisme. Her sculptures are made up out of "found objects" and plastic toys, in which her preferred themes are monsters and other fantastic creatures. These series showed a certain concern with the representation of women, as in the series Brides. In the second half of the 60s, Saint-Phalle concentrated almost exclusively on monumental sculptures, at times directed especially at children. She produced numerous book illustrations, stage designs for ballet and directed films. In 1986, she published Aids, You Can't Catch it Holding, a combination of text and images. In 1993, she had a major one-woman show at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris and, in 1998, she took part in the Venice Biennale. The spectacular, ostentatious character of her sculptures have much in common with Pop Art.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Aquisições Recentes da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1998 ~ 04-04-1999
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
She is a Femme Fatale – A Colecção Berardo em Campus FTC na Costa da Caparica, Portugal 08-04-2010 ~ 07-06-2010
Bibliography
Christie's, Contemporary Art (Part I), 1997 Published by Christie's
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742898
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
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