Marina Abramović: the 12 most important works of the artist

Marina Abramović (1946) é um dos maiores nomes da Performance Art (or performance art) worldwide, I started my career in the 70s and reached a great success.

O seu work of him, of How many pioneers and so many times it is controversial, to become one of the most important and media performers attached to data, awakening or interested a large audience for an artistic form that was not yet very familiar.

Either her contribution to the universe gives performance to her linguistic and incalculable, knowing that some of her works will become true references.

1. Rhythm 10 (1973)

This performance was the first of the series Rhythms, the initial phase is one of the most famous of her career. In Edinburgh, the artist places various facas in front of her and enlightens a kind of game like them.

Marina Pégava numa faca of each time and passava com a lamina no space between your fingers, quickly. Every time she falhava and cut her hand, she trocava de faca and recomeçava, tempting to recreate the same mistakes.

Referencing themes such as ritual and repetition, to performer Place or seu body of her numa situation of potential cliff diante da plateia, something that she would do in various ways.

2. Rhythm 5 (1974)

Newly testing the seus physical and mental limits, in this work, a performer continues to use her body to create art. No Centro do Estudante de Belgrade, the location is not a large structure of wood in the shape of a star in the chamas, as a space in the center.

You must cut your hair and unhas e jogá-los no fogo, metaphors for a purification and liberation In the past, Marina positioned herself in the center of the star.

At the end of two smokes, she lost consciousness and had to be withdrawn from the show, tending to her appearance interrupted.

3. Rhythm 0 (1974)

Rhythm 0 é, sem dúvida, a very remarkable performance and also a few more conhecidos da artist. Na Galleria Studio Morra, in Naples, has positioned 72 objects on top of a table and was placed in or available to the public for a period of 6 hours.

With various instruments such as a flower, canetas, facas, inks, currents and attached a loaded firearm, she deixou instructions advising that plateia could fazer or who wanted eat her during that time.

Marina was fired, painted, bruised, and had the same gun pointed at her head. Raising her body to or limit it again, she troubled human psychology and power relations, transmitting a regretful reflection on the ways we connect.

4. ART MUST BE BEAUTIFUL, ARTIST MUST BE BEAUTIFUL (1975)

A video performance took place in Copenhagen, in Denmark, and exhibited artist escovando os seus cabelos com violência for about an hour. During this period, and displaying an expressão and intonation crescent of dor, Marina repeated or did not give me work: "Art must be beautiful, or artist must be beautiful."

Either work is transgressor and we can identify or her feminist aspect of her, I know that she started from a woman in the 70s, still marked by a strong objectification of the feminine body.

Thinking of dor e também or conceito de belo, Abramović reflects on two padrões de beleza existing in our culture.

5. In Relation in Time (1977)

Or work was done I do not start parceria as a German performer Ulay, I have lived a loving relationship and created art for 12 years.

Exhibited in Studio G7 in Bolonha, in Italy, the work exhibits two seated artists, facing upside down coasts, for 17 hours, prisoners um ao outro pelos cabelos.

It is about a test of physical and mental resistance that seeks or balance and harmony, thinking things like tempo, dor e or tiring.

6. Breathing In / Breathing Out (1977)

Initially presented in Belgrade, a work or pair arises recently together, by joelhos no chão. Like noses covered by cigarette filters and strained mouths uma à outra, Marina e Ulay we breathe or the same, that ia going from um to o outro.

Depois a period of 19 minutes, or home esgotou or oxygen and ficou à beira do faint. Além gives a feeling of anguish and suffocation, the performance seems to reflect on topics like you loving relationships and interdependence.

7. AAA-AAA (1978)

Also positioned by joelhos, in this work Ulay e Marina we olhavam us olhos and iam screaming each time higher, as it is tempting to overcome one year or another.

The performance lasted approximately 15 minutes and ended with you practically screaming inside your mouth um do outro. This seems to be a metaphor about two challenges as difficulties of a relationship troubled.

8. Rest Energy (1980)

Again together, the companions will create this work that lasted only 4 minutes and was presented in Amsterdam, in Germany. As weight of serious bodies, Marina and Ulay balance uma arrow That was appointed for the heart of the performer.

Both of us use microphones, but I don't want us to replicate your serious heartbeats, each time more accelerated with anxiety at the moment. It is about a work based on mutual trust that Abramović confessed that it was the most difficult of his career.

9. The Lovers (1988)

Highly symbolic and touching, The Lovers brand or end of artistic partnership and love relationship between lovers. When they decide to separate permanently, after 12 years of life in common, they will create this last work.

Each part of two sides gives Grande Muralha da China e secruzaram no centro. There, they will say goodbye and follow their respective paths, assassinating or ending the stage of their lives.

10. Spirit Cooking (1996)

A work of smaller dimensions, presented in an Italian gallery, Spirit Cooking continues to generate controversies tied years of leafing days. Combining performance with poetry and books of culinária, Marina escreveu com sangue de porco algumas "receitas" pelas walls.

Later, or work was published in a book format. In 2016, during the elections for the presidency of the United States of America, work voltou to walk "nas mouths of the world". A supposed exchange of e-mails between Marina and someone who works in the campaign of Hillary Cliton gerou or boast that both are satanists and fariam rituals, following the indications do livro.

11. Seven Easy Pieces (2005)

Presented in the Guggenheim Museum, in Nova Iorque, Seven Easy Pieces It is a series of performances that will mark or influence her or her path and Marina I am going to grow up, many years of depois.

Besides including two of her works, Abramović also reproduziu and reinventou works of other artists like Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, Gina Pane and Joseph Beuys.

12. The Artist Is Present (2010)

The Artist is Present ou Artist is Present foi uma longa duração performance that takes place no MoMA, or Museum of Modern Art of Nova Iorque.

During the three months of the exhibition, which offers a retrospective of her work and occupies or interior museum, Marina Marcou is present, totaling 700 hours of performative work. Sitting in a cadeira, ficava face to face as spectators I want to, one at a time, partilhar a moment of silence with her.

An inescapable moment (portrayed in an image above) was Ulay's appearance, or old companion of her, that totally surpreendeu. You two got excited, you leave me and choraram together, so many years of separation.

And it is impressive the way they seem to communicate through their facial expressions and two serious gestures, the same as trocarem words. The repentant episode was also recorded on video and became very popular on the internet. Check below:

Quem é Marina Abramović? Summary biography

A self-titled "avó da performance" born on November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, formerly Iugoslavia and the current capital of Servia. Her country was communist and a hero in World War II, holding non-governmental positions.

Marina was raised with a passion, extremely religious, I was 6 years old and as a child, she showed a great interest in the arts. Two countries of her recebeu uma quite rigid education, in a military style, which seems to have influenced the artist to seek various forms of liberation over the long haul.

Abramović studied at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts between the years 1965 to 1970, attending post-graduation in Croatia. In 1971, she married Neša Paripović, a conceitual artist, as whom she remained for 5 years.

You must introduce yourselves First jobs in your native city After getting divorced, the artist ended up moving to Holland. Foi ai what conheceu Ulay, A German breeder whose true origin was not Uwe Laysiepen. He was a great companion of her, not love as much as art, for over a decade.

Além da carreira as a performer, Abramović também deu classrooms in universities in various countries: na Servia, na Holland, na Germany and na França. Or it was her course to lead her to carry out work in philanthropy and director of cinema.

Breeder of body art, which uses or corpo as vehicle or support, Marina studied and challenged her limits. On several occasions, she also invited the spectator to participate in the performances, working on quests as well as relationship between artist and audience.

The work of the artist has become more and more internationally famous, becoming a "performance face" for a large part of the public. To her popularity, she turned to grow with a retrospective exhibition no MoMA, from 2010, which ended up transforming num documentary film Directed by Matthew Akers.

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