In the Garden of Imagination, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, 21 May – 26 Sept 2010

With the exhibition ‘Niki de Saint Phalle – In the Garden of Imagination’, the Essl Museum offers a retrospective look at the work of the artist who died in 2002. Early assemblages, Tirs (Shooting Paintings), objects and sculptures from the famous Tarot Garden in Tuscany, work created together with Jean Tinguely, as well as the famous Nanas will be on show.
The exhibition starts with creative work with a feminist twist, the spectacular Shooting Paintings. These usually consisted of canvases portraying male or monstrous creatures which the artist shot at with real fire arms in the presence of a live audience.