What Are The Skinnies?
- Author
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Published
- Tue 29 Apr 2008
- Episode Link
- http://www.mobot.org/events/NIKI/Niki.asp
On Guide: n22
Sculpture: Femme Bleu
Location: Shoenberg Temperate House
Air became part of Nikis artistic palette with her see-through The Skinnies, made of bronze and polyurethane paint. Niki saw New Man is Coming and Femme Bleu as air sculptures that breathe and invite you to look right through them. She linked their breathing and skeletal look with the experiences of her own ailing body.
