Marina Abramovic The renowned performing artist
The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is
Marina Abramovic was born 1946 in the former Yugoslavia. Here she graduated as painter from the academy of art in Belgrade 1970, but quickly abandoned painting in favour of a practice that took place in real time and space in direct encounters between artist and audience. With her sound and performance works she was a formative part of Belgrade’s experimental avant-garde scene until 1976, when she moved to Amsterdam and embarked on a close partnership and collaboration for the next twelve years with the German photographer and performance artist Ulay.
Abramovic had become the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, wich made her into a renowned perfoming artist. In her provocative performances she employs her own body as subject and support.
I realize the power of the art that does not hang on the walls of galleries
With a wide range of artworks, Marina Abramovic has been doing some amazing performing exhibitions, some of them putting her own life in risk, as Rhythm 0, 1975 where she allowed an audience full reign of her body becoming a puppet to their whims, either using selected objects to harm or please, but in both ways the choices were degrading.
“The Artist is Present” was her most known performance. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. She continuoes to surprise us whit her originality and sence of art.
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