Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint-Phalle, Michel De Grece, Pontus Hulten, Ulrich Krempel, Yoko Masuda, Janice Parente, Pierre Restany, Ronald Clark, Pierre Lejeune, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pierre Descargues, Carla. Schulz-Hoffmann, Niki De Saint-Phalle

"Without Death, Life has no meaning" : Niki de Saint Phalle's death in May 2002 meant the loss of a woman of diverse creative talent. For fans of mosaic though, her great lagacy centers on the huge Cyclops in the Fontainbleu forest near Paris, and her stunning sculpture garden in Italy. The Tarot Garden (Giardino Dei Tarocchi) is an exploration of the human condition whose medium is mosaic on a monumental scale. These almost impossibly brightly coloured combinations of buildings and sculpture reflect the metaphysical qualities represented by the 22 main tarot cards (the major arcana). They're not concerned with the fortune-telling uses of the cards, rather the elements of life's experience, personality and self-knowledge they refer to. Work on the garden began in 1979 and the main part of the work was carried out in the 1980s; it was officially opened to the public in May 1998. During...

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