She shot her paintings with rifles and built a tarot garden in Tuscany. Artist? Witch? Both.
In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the cooperation with Jean Tinguely. The frame of this film is a tour through her tarot garden in Tuscany.
Direction
Schamoni lets Niki narrate her own mythology, no filter.
Production
The tarot garden footage is genuinely mind-bending practical magic.
Director
Peter Schamoni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'shooting paintings' used a .22 rifle; Niki had to lie about her intentions to get permits.
Her Nanas were initially mocked by critics as 'fat ladies'—now they're feminist icons worth millions.
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