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from Auction House Records.
Cleaning the Mirror I
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in
1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since
1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City. In
Amsterdam, she is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at
Braunschweig.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972, completing postgraduate studies in Zagreb in 1972.
In
2002 in New York City, she put herself on display for twelve days on a
stage set at the Sean Kelly Gallery, sleeping, staring, standing,
meditating, fasting, urinating, defecating, contemplating, showering in
public before a gallery audience for one hundred eighteen of the
two-hundred seventy-one total performance hours. This work was
called "The House with the Ocean View."
From 1976 to 1988,
Abramovic and F. Uwe Laysiepen (performance name "Ulay") worked as a
performance team and created video and life-size Polaroid photography.
From 1981 to 1986, they presented Nightsea Crossing,
comprised of motionless meditation and concentration, in ninety sites
around the world. Their final performance saw them start walking
from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China until they came
together. In earlier works, they sat motionless, back to back,
hair tied together, for seventeen hours; screamed into each other's
open mouths until hoarse; repeatedly ran into each other.
Ulay was born in 1943 in Solingen, Germany. Their work was published in Marina Abramovic and Ulay: Relation Work and Detour (1980). In 1986 they received the Polaroid Video Art Award.
They
have been exhibited internationally at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Venice Biennale; Paris Biennale; Documentas 6 and 7, Kassel, Germany;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne;
De Appel, Amsterdam; The Tate Gallery, London; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and The New
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Source:
Thomas McEvilley, Art in America, April 2003
http://www.eai.org/eai/biography.jsp?artistID=461
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