The Pacific Design Center's Design Loves Art series for 2012 has begun, and we're sharing a few of the fabulous features you can expect this year. Design Loves Art runs at the PDC from now through March 23, 2012.
Here is Elsewhere presents From King Kong to Queen Califia: Niki de Saint Phalle & the West Coast, which marks Saint Phalle’s first show in Los Angeles in decades. The exhibition, curated by Yann Perreau at Here is Elsewhere Gallery, examines Saint Phalle’s relationship to southern California. From her Shooting Paintings in Malibu from 1961 to her Black Heroes series, realized in the late 1990s in San Diego, Saint Phalle found the West Coast a unique, lifelong source of inspiration that culminated in 2003 with her sculpture garden, Queen Califia’s (the legendary queen of California) Magic Circle in Escondido, California.
The exhibition is organized in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time’s re-creation of Tirs: Reloaded on January 22, an homage to Niki de Saint Phalle’s “tirs,” or shooting paintings, that took place 50 years earlier at the invitation of Virginia Dwan, which inspired Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, and other prominent Los Angeles artists.
Saint Phalle is best known for her public sculptures, such as the Stravinsky Fountain next to the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1983), the Tarot Garden at Garavicchio in southern Tuscany (1998), the Grotto in Hannover's Royal Herrenhausen Garden (2003), and Queen Califia's Magical Circle. Born in 1930, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Saint Phalle died in 2002 at the age of 71 in La Jolla, California. The exhibition is courtesy the Niki Charitable Art Foundation.
For more information, visit the PDC online and check back tomorrow to hear about two other inspiring exhibitions featured at Design Loves Art.
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