Paris Pays Homage to Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tnguely

Someone has renamed them the 'enfants terribles' of modern art: opens tomorrow at the Grand Palais de Paris a retrospective dedicated to the universe of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 - 2002) and her companion Jean Tinguely (1925 - 1991), all through the visionary gaze of a 'third man', Pontus Hulten (1924 - 2006), first director at Musée d'art moderne of the Centre Pompidou which at the time shared with the two artists a radical conception of a free art, multidisciplinary and participatory. Born from the collections of the Centre Pompidou and from loans from French and international institutions, "Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten" - this is the title of the exhibition scheduled until January 4, 2026 - is a invitation to discover or rediscover the emblematic works of Saint Phalle and Tinguely, whom Hulten strongly promoted, in a a fortunate partnership between art, love, friendship and commitment shared. On display along the banks of the Seine are around 200 works including sculptures, automatic machines, installations, paintings, such as including photos, archive footage, letters, drawings, presented in the renovated spaces of over 2,000 square meters of the GrandPalaisRmn. The exhibition inaugurates, among other things, the collaboration between the emblematic Parisian building, whose immense vault of crystal continues to fascinate generations of Parisians and tourists, and the Centre Pompidou, which will also close its doors for five years of work from 22 September and whose collections are already starting to travel around the world.