MARINA ABRAMOVIC online at Serpentine Gallery
20/06/2014.
Serpentine Gallery / Exhibition. [LON] UK 17/06-25/08/2014
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
At the end of each day of her performance 512 Hours, Marina Abramović closes the door to visitors and records a summary of the past eight hours. Spoken directly to camera, this eloquent and moving record is a testament to “one of the most difficult things she has ever done.” The short daily films will trace the fluctuations and developments of her performance piece, which begins with an empty space and unlimited possibilities.
Marina Abramović: 512 Hours. Photograph © 2014 Marco Anelli.
Marina Abramović: 512 Hours. Photograph © 2014 Marco Anelli.
Marina Abramović Black and white photo, Marina conducting rehearsal for "Bolero" Portrait © Rahi Rezvani, Paris 2013
Portrait of Marina Abramović, 2012 Image © 24 ORE Cultura S.r.l. and © Laura Ferrari Courtesy of The Marina Abramović Archives.
Marina Abramović Marina in Black coat in the forest Portrait of Marina Abramović © Knut Bry and Ekebergeparken Oslo, 2013.
Marina Abramović Black and white portrait, Marina's hair in braids - from the L'Official Magazine cover shoot Portrait of Marina Abramović, 2013 © Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello.
Marina at Midnight launched on Friday 13 June with The Space, a new creative online platform dedicated to new digital art. Daily diaries are released at midnight each night, from until 25 August on www.thespace.org; www.serpentinegalleries.org; www.illy.com; www.mai-hudson.org. The diaries will be available to watch again on all platforms.
For her Serpentine exhibition, Marina Abramović will perform in the Serpentine Gallery from 10am to 6pm, 6 days a week for 64 days. Her only materials will be herself, the audience and a selection of common objects that she will use in a constantly changing sequence of events. The public will become the performing body, participating in the delivery of an unprecedented moment in the history of performance art.
Abramović is a pioneer of performance as an art form, using her own body as subject and object, she has pushed the physical and mental limits of her being. 512 Hours is the first major performance by Abramović since her monumental piece The Artist is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2010, in which visitors were invited to sit in silence opposite the artist and gaze into her eyes for an unspecified amount of time. Abramović performed this work every day for three months.
In the early 1970s, as a young artist in Belgrade, Abramović began exploring the relationship between artist and audience. Since 1978 she has conducted a series of workshops with art students, using a series of simple exercises to increase physical and mental awareness. Over the course of her career, Abramović has continued to develop these workshops, expanding their scope to reach a general public, through the Marina Abramović Institute.
Marina at Midnight is co-commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries and The Space, in collaboration with Illycaffé and Marina Abramović Institute (MAI).
Venue.- Serpentine Gallery. Hyde Park, London, UK.
Dates.- 13 Jun 2014 to 25 Aug 2014.
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MARINA ABRAMOVIC
Marina Abramović, born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. Since the beginning of her career in Yugoslavia during the early 1970s where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. Abramovic's concern is with creating works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming, and thinking; in effect the manifestation of a unique mental state.
From 1975 until 1988, Abramovic and the German artist Ulay performed together, dealing with relations of duality. After separating in 1988, Abramovic returned to solo performances in 1989. Abramovic has presented her work with performances, sound, photography, video, sculpture, and ‘Transitory Objects for Human and Non Human Use’ in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe, and in many large-scale international exhibitions.
Since 2010, she has been working on the foundation of the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), which will be the artist's legacy and homage to the inmaterial and time-based art. It will be a center for learning and performing about long durational performance.
Also, Marina Abramovic has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America and, in summer of 2011, she have been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Art Institute in Chicago.
In 2021 she was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts for "courage and the avant-garde" in art.
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