Milena Palakarkina (born 1959) is a Bulgarian artist.
Early life
After she completed undergraduate studies at UCLA and NYU, she met
Pierre Restany
Pierre Restany (24 June 1930 – 29 May 2003), was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher.
Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning ...
in 1983 in
Milan. Under his influence she studied
Yves Klein and moved to
Paris in 1984 in order to write a
screenplay
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Background
After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, fe ...
. While researching the project she reunited with
Niki de Saint-Phalle, whom she had met in
Hollywood
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in 1978. Niki introduced her to
Jean Tinguely in 1986 and the young woman abandoned the screenplay to follow Tinguely to
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
where she returned to painting.
Palakarkina shared the last five years of Jean Tinguely's life and created with him a series of paintings ''Märtyrer und Gespenster'', which includes three collaborations - ''The Altars:'' ''Saint Sebastian'' (1988), ''Saint Christopher/Rococo'' (1989), and ''Kathryn, Bride of Christ'' (1990). The collection was shown at the gallery Jamile Weber in
Zurich in 1990 and at the Gallery
Hans Mayer
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in
Düsseldorf in 1991. The Altar ''Saint Sebastian'' was shown in the retrospective of Jean Tinguely in
Musee d'Art et d'Histoire in
Fribourg in 1991. The collaborations were shown at the Gallery
Beaubourg
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in 1996 and at
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli.
History
In 1947 the Municipality o ...
in Milan in 2008. The works are on display at the Rossini Foundation in
Carate Brianza in Northern Italy.
Five months after Tinguely's death she gave birth to their son and returned to Paris to participate in the contemporary figurative art scene.
[ Gérard Xuriguera, Art rt Gens, Chateaux et Demeurs,1995]
References
External links
artist website
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1959 births
Living people
20th-century French painters
21st-century French painters
21st-century women artists
New York University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
20th-century women artists