Saint Phalle

My first book was “Some Collages,” which I got to design with Arielle de Saint Phalle and the people from Anthology, who published it.

I wasn’t expecting to have a book or a show, but Arielle de Saint Phalle encouraged me during the pandemic.

His collection includes individual pieces by renowned women artists, among them Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Meret Oppenheim and Niki de Saint Phalle.

Artist Niki de Saint Phalle did one of her shoot performances — shooting bullets at canvases covered with paint-filled plastic and plaster objects — in the hills above Dwan’s Malibu Colony home.

The resulting painting, explosive with color, was installed alongside Dwan’s swimming pool, next to a cannon made by Saint Phalle’s partner, artist Jean Tinguely.