until Sunday February 16 2025

Mudec Museo delle Culture
via Tortona 56
20144 Milan
Italy

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The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective anthology in an Italian museum celebrates the Franco-American artist known for her big, colourful Nanas, but also revealing her activism through a different interpretation of her work.

Throughout eight sections, the exhibition project narrates Niki de Saint Phalle’s artistic life from the beginnings to her latest works. This diachronic yet strongly anthological rhythm retraces her personal life through the colorful, polymorphic, round, and maternal world of her Nanas (and more), revealing a much less joyful personal life. During her own life, this artist has often had to destroy in order to process grief, then she had to rebuild, breaking the mould through her unconventional artworks, sending messages through her intense provocations, and thus leaving a lasting mark on the art world.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Niki Charitable Art Foundation, this exhibition brings 110 works to Milan, among which a dozen large-scale works, along with a selection dresses from Maison Dior, recalling her modeling past in the beautiful photos portraying her, while simultaneously telling the public, about a very “pop” personal vision of art, perceived as a path affirmation of femininity.