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Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Tinguely Per Olof Ultvedt bygger Hon
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Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Tinguely Per Olof Ultvedt bygger Hon

Artist (Sverige, 1939 - 2010)
Alternate Title
  • Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Tinguely Per Olof Ultvedt are building Hon
Date1966
Medium16 mm film transferred to video, b/w
Dimensions27 min
ClassificationMoving Images
Credit LinePurchase 2013
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2013/148
The artwork is on outgoing loan
About the artwork

This documentary from

the creation of the now

legendary exhibition

HON – a Cathedral at

Moderna Museet in 1966

is practically without dialogue, but nevertheless

reveals the close cooperation between

three artists. Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely

and P O Ultvedt set out to do something

together, without any fixed plans. This leads

to a crisis meeting in Ultvedt’s home, and

a concept that no visitor to the museum that

summer would ever forget. HON was both

a monumental sculpture and a small-format

cultural centre. A female figure simmering

with life – a cinema, exhibition space, aquarium

and cafe.

The artists Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely

and P O Ultvedt are intimately linked with

Moderna Museet’s early history. To this day,

Paradise (1966), the sculpture group by Saint

Phalle and Tinguely standing outside the

museum is one of the most important and

loved works in the collection.


Selected exhibition history Niki de Saint Phalle (den 17 september 2014 - den 7 juni 2015) Guggenheim Museum Bilbao