Jakesprinter SUNDAY POST : Shelter is this weeks photo challenge for me.
I decided to take two photos I’ve taken on a Italy vacation quite a while ago. We visited Il Giardino dei Tarocchi of Niki de Saint Phalle in the South of Tuscany. I like her kind of artwork which I mostly got introduced to when I lived in Hannover, Germany for a few months. She had a strong bonding to Sprengel Museum and the city itself and left a good amount of her artistic patrimony to museum and city, and she designed the grotto of Herrenhäuser Gärten. Unfortunately she died before she could end her work on the grotto and therefore was never able to see her finished result.
But to come back to the topic Shelter, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely (a swiss artist famous for his moving sculptures made of rusty steel, he also co-designed Strawinski-fountain in front of Centre Pompidou in Paris with her) worked together on Tarot-Garden and lived there together in one of her “sculptures”.
This is the outside view…
and one room inside…
Stepping inside this “home” was unbelievable, like being Alice behind the mirror. My first thought was, wow it must look incredible at night with the lights on, my second thought was, you must go crazy spending more than an hour or so in such a shining place. The whole inside was covered with mirror glass pieces, but it was really a place to live in with fully equipped kitchen and bathroom, both with sign of use.
April 30, 2012 at 20:21
Hi,
Wow, that is just amazing, I have never seen anything like it. But I do agree, I don’t know if I could actually spend too much time inside, an hour sounds about right. Still it looks stunning.
May 3, 2012 at 12:48
It is worth be shelter of a famous artist.
May 1, 2012 at 01:19
Beautiful post my friend for this week topic
May 3, 2012 at 12:48
Thanks, Jake.
May 1, 2012 at 04:36
that shelter is amazing and beautiful. thank you for sharing such a unique place.
May 3, 2012 at 12:49
Thank you for commenting, suitablefish.
May 1, 2012 at 06:53
Amazing to visit but living there would be strange indeed!
May 3, 2012 at 12:50
I agree. Thanks Gilly.
May 3, 2012 at 14:36
This is one of the coolest versions of shelter I’ve seen yet. Great post!
May 3, 2012 at 14:58
Thank you orples, that is so nice.
May 3, 2012 at 18:41
Amazing and creative at the same time.
May 4, 2012 at 08:56
Yes it is. Thanks for commenting.
May 11, 2012 at 17:29
Hoffentlich werden die Arbeiten in Hannover inzwischen besser angenommen. Ihr 1. Werk am Leineufer im Rahmen des Strassenkunst-Programms war damals ein ziemliches Hassobjekt. Als junger Bursche habe ich ihre 1. Ausstellung im Kunstverein Hannover gesehen.
May 12, 2012 at 13:14
Ich denke die Hannoveraner haben sich inzwischen an ihre Arbeiten gewöhnt…
May 12, 2012 at 19:28
Ich hab nachgesehn: Es war 1969 ihre 1. Ausstellungs-Tour in D. Ich hab sogar 1 Autogramm von Ihr.
May 13, 2012 at 10:08
Das macht neidisch…
1969 ist ja schon ‘ne Weile her, da hat sich auch in H. einiges geändert.
Ich war zwar nur ein knappes halbes Jahr dort, aber ich mochte die Stadt. Sie hat sehr viel, was man auf den ersten Blick nicht vermutet…
May 13, 2012 at 17:43
Deshalb hat man das Strassenkunst-Programm erfunden, weil viele es auch auf den 2. Blick nicht gefunden haben. Ich war auch froh, als ich 1 Haus im Moor fand.