Marina Abramovic"Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic (b. 1946) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art. Her body is her primary subject and medium, and she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in her ongoing quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the most historic early performance pieces. Of these artists, she is the only one still making important durational works." "Abramovic features prominently in virtually every survey published on performance art, and her works are held in the permanent collections of many of the world's top museums, including the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In November 2005 at New York's Guggenheim Museum, Abramovic staged a landmark weeklong series of performances entitled Seven Easy Pieces. Her twelve-day 'living installation', The House with the Ocean View was on numerous critics' lists as the best exhibition of 2002, and she was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her video installation/performance Balkan Baroque."--BOOK JACKET. |
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1975 PERFORMANCE ABRAMOVIC Abramović at Sean Abramović/Ulay action Amsterdam Ana Mendieta April Art in America Art Journal Art Newspaper Artforum ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS artist and viewer Artist Body Artnews audience Balkan Balkan Baroque Balkan Erotic Epic Belgrade Berlin BIESENBACH Biography Body Art Bye bye Cleaning the Mirror commissure communist D'ART CONTEMPORAIN December dreams EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS father Flash Art Germany GINA PANE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM January JOSEPH BEUYS knives Kristine Stiles KUNSTMUSEUM KUNSTVEREIN March Marina Abramović McEvilley MODERN ART mother MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM OF MODERN Nightsea Crossing November objects Ocean View pain painting Pejić performance art photograph physical Rhythm Role Exchange sculptures Sean Kelly SEAN KELLY GALLERY SELECTED ARTICLES SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Seven Easy Pieces shadow solo sound space STUDENT CULTURAL CENTRE STUDIO Tema Celeste theatre Thomas Lips Tibetan Tito toured Ulay VENICE BIENNALE visual Wall York group Yugoslavia Zagreb