CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/13/2015

Niki de Saint Phalle

"If today I consider myself almost the only poet, the only sculptor capable of creating something poetic, it's precisely because I'm a woman. Men with their rockets, their atomic bomb, and all that filth they've dumped on us… they've sterilized themselves. All that's left to them is the head or its appearances, and that is why they're no longer able to create anything in today's art world… Men have nothing to express anymore except a profound jealousy of woman and her creative power. Women can make kids, but they can't… My main concern is creation… I thirst after creation, and that's why at a certain point I created Accouchements: women giving birth." Excerpt from Maurice Rheims' 1965 Vogue Paris interview with the artist and this 1979 overpainted photograph of her legendary 1966 walk-in reclining nude sculptural environment, "Hon," (realized in collaboration with Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ultvdt) are reproduced from La Fabrica's comprehensive new monograph.