En 2010, plus de 750 000 personnes se sont pressées au Museum of Modern Art de New York pour avoir la chance d'assister à la performance célébrant les cinquante années de carrière de Marina Abramovic. Traverser les murs, récit saisissant, épique et d'un humour impitoyable, raconte comment une jeune femme élevée par une mère folcoche, qui a grandi dans la Yougoslavie communiste de Tito, est devenue, en quelques décennies, une icône mondiale de l'art contemporain.
En repoussant les limites du corps humain, la peur, la douleur, la fatigue, dans une quête sans compromis de transformation émotionnelle et spirituelle, Marina Abramovic, qui compte parmi ses admirateurs Lady Gaga et Jay-Z, a révolutionné l'art de la performance, devenant l'une des plus importantes inspiratrices de l'esthétique de la pop culture au XXIe siècle.
A unique, boxed set of 30 instruction cards by Marina Abramovic to teach you this legend of performance art's method for reaching a higher consciousness and confronting life's challenges.
Using exercises Marina Abramovic has developed for herself to prepare for her incredible performance works, the Method will help you focus, reconnect with the present, and locate your highest creative potential.
Ce catalogue accompagne la première rétrospective majeure de l'artiste en Europe, présentée au Moderna Museet (18/02/2017-21/05/2017) et au Louisiana Museum (16/06/2017-22/10/2017). Le catalogue retrace toute la carrière de Marina Abramovic, depuis ses premières performances avec Ulay dans les années 70 jusqu'à ses travaux les plus récents. On y retrouve les grandes thématiques de son oeuvre, comme la perte, la mémoire, la confiance et la persévérance, explorées par une artiste qui continue à émouvoir et provoquer.
A clothbound companion to Marina Abramovic's tribute to Maria Callas, a new performance that recreates the iconic opera diva's famous onstage death scenes An opera production conceived by the legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic (born 1946), 7 Deaths of Maria Callas is a continuation of the artist's lifelong meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain. Here Abramovic turns her focus to renowned opera singer Maria Callas, whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century. Though she remains one of opera's greatest singers, Callas' life was beset by struggle and scandal. Today, the opera diva is remembered for having been a figure of both talent and tragedy.
Through a mix of narrative opera and film, Abramovic recreates seven iconic death scenes from the American-born Greek singer's most important roles?in La Traviata, Tosca, Otello, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor and Norma?followed by an interpretive recreation of Callas' own death performed onstage by Abramovic herself. This clothbound volume serves as a companion to the live performance and provides insight into the conception, planning and execution of Abramovic's project, probing the many creative elements that make up this dynamic exploration of female suffering.
Limited to 1,970 copies in print, numbered and signed by the author and legendary artist Marina Abramovi. Lavish packaging: Encased in a bright red slipcase with die-cut holes, this deluxe edition makes for a chic and artistic literary presentation Hand-signed cover: Each deluxe edition cover will be hand-signed by Marina Abramovi and feature elegant color endpapers, two full color 8-page inserts, and over 100 black and white photographs throughout the book I had experienced absolute freedom--I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didnt matter, that nothing mattered at all--and it intoxicated me. In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramovis MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramovi is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Titos regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mothers abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor--all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story--a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe--a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marinas story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic (*1946 in Belgrade, Serbia) is one of the most discussed artists today. Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to expand the boundaries of art. The publication accompanying her first major retrospective in Europe gives an extensive overview of her work from the earliest years until today: film, photography, paintings and objects, installations and archival material. Since the early 1970s Marina Abramovic explores the intersection between performing and visual art in her work and, though rarely overtly political, poses questions of power and hierarchy. In addressing fundamental issues of our existence and seeking the core of notions like loss, memory, pain, endurance, and trust, she both provokes and moves us.
I had experienced absolute freedom--I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didnt matter, that nothing mattered at all--and it intoxicated me. In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramovis MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramovi is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Titos regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mothers abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor--all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story--a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe--a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marinas story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
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