Jean Tinguely : Hanover Gallery

Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely : Hanover Gallery

London, UK: Hanover Gallery, 1968

9 x 16 cm.

Edition size unknown

An accordion-fold catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Hanover Gallery between the 5th of December, 1967 and January 5th, 1968. 

The coloured serigraph leporello (folding out to 9 x 288 cm.) features a collage of drawings, photographs, writing and stamps. The work also includes illustrations by Niki de Saint Phalle, who was married to Tinguely for twenty years, until his death in 1991. 

Tinguely died thirty-five years ago today, at the age of 66.

Niki de Saint Phalle | The Devouring Mothers

Niki de Saint Phalle

The Devouring Mothers

London, New York & Zurich: Gimpel Fils, 1972

[28] pp, 14 × 17 × 1 cm., string-bound

First edition of fifty signed and numbered copies

A story book whose illustrations appear at first glance to be whimsical and lighthearted, in contrast to the disturbing subject matter of an abusive father and devouring mother.

Niki de Saint Phalle died on this day in 2002, at the age of 71.

"A wall text at the Guggenheim described the ‘Nanas’ as ‘warriors in the feminist battle’, their bodies expressing ‘femininity without restraint, feminism with a smile’. I am unconvinced. Their appeal to an essentializing, voluptuous maternity is simplistic and anachronistic – even for the late 1960s and early ’70s, when second-wave feminists were fighting to divorce feminine identity from biological function. More interesting is Saint Phalle’s series of ‘Devouring Mothers’, sculptures and sketches made in the early 1970s. Darker versions of the earth mother archetype, these dowdy matriarchs take tea with babies in place of cakes; one swallows Daddy whole."

- Amy Sherlock, Frieze

Niki de Saint-Phalle

 

Niki de Saint-Phalle was born on this day in 1930. 

Dollar Bills

 

Accordion-Fold Artists’ Books

Leporellos by Kiki Smith, Kay Rosen, Nancy Karp, Emmett Williams, Diane Borsato, Raymond Pettibon, Miranda Maher, Robert Morris, Peter E. Clarke, Dave Dyment, Athena Tacha, Dennis Oppenheim, Hansjörg Mayer, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Lucio Fontana.