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Canadian Charlotte Le Bon plays Niki de Saint Phalle in Céline Sallette’s first film. Cinema, fashion, exhibitions… The legacy of the mother of “Nanas” is more alive than ever
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A stunning “Snake Tree”, bark in glass mosaic and fragments of mirrors, is about to rise on the Parisian cobblestones. The contemporary art fair Art Basel Paris (October 15 to 20) places on the square in front of the Institut de France the fountain with reptile heads created in 1988 by Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002). Since this summer, in the Louvre-Lens park has stood the “Blue Obelisk of Flowers”, another totem created in 1992 by the Franco-American artist in homage to the victims of AIDS.
The Gallimard house is continuing this fall with the reissue of the sculptor’s intimate books, after the autobiographical “Traces”, the poetic “My Love”. Nikimania proliferates in all latitudes: a vast retrospective in the United States closed in Kansas City, another opens in Milan.
In June 2025, the first exhibition at the Grand Palais orchestrated by the Center Pompidou will be largely dedicated to him. At the same time, the…
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