Marina Abramović

Nel 2010, in occasione della retrospettiva che il MoMA dedicò a Marina Abramović, più di 750mila persone aspettarono in fila fuori dal museo per avere la possibilità di sedersi di fronte all’artista e di comunicare con lei senza dire una parola, in una performance senza precedenti durata più di settecento ore. Una celebrazione di quasi cinquant’anni di performance art rivoluzionaria. Figlia di genitori comunisti, eroi di guerra sotto il regime di Tito nella Jugoslavia postbellica, Marina Abramović fu cresciuta secondo una ferrea etica del lavoro. Agli esordi della sua carriera artistica internazionale viveva ancora con la madre e sotto il suo totale controllo, obbedendo a un rigido coprifuoco che la costringeva a rincasare entro le dieci di sera. Ma nulla poté placare la sua insaziabile curiosità, il suo desiderio di entrare in contatto con la gente e il suo senso dell’umorismo. Tutto ciò che ancora oggi la contraddistingue e dà forma alla sua vita. Al cuore di Attraversare i muri c’è la storia d’amore con il collega perfomance artist Ulay: una relazione sentimentale e professionale durata dodici anni, molti dei quali passati a bordo di un furgone viaggiando attraverso l’Europa, senza un soldo. Un legame che arrivò al drammatico epilogo sulla Grande Muraglia cinese. La storia di Marina Abramović, commovente, epica e ironica, parla di un’incomparabile carriera artistica che spinge il corpo oltre i limiti della paura, del dolore, dello sfinimento e del pericolo, in una ricerca assoluta della trasformazione emotiva e spirituale. Esso stesso straordinaria performance, Attraversare i muri è la rappresentazione vivida e potente della vita di un’artista eccezionale.

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Attraversare i muri

Hans Christian Andersen

"I had a strong personal desire to illustrate Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Ugly Duckling, '" reflects pioneering performance artist Marina Abramovic (born 1946). "As a young child and growing adolescent, I felt a complete identification with the story. I, too, was the ugly duckling." Andersen's story of the ugly duckling that endures torment and loneliness before becoming a beautiful swan has resonated with readers since it was first published in 1843. Now, in this beautiful new edition of the classic fairy tale, Abramovic reimagines the story by adding new pen and crayon illustrations to the original text. This volume is the second publication in a series of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales illustrated by contemporary artists, following the huge success of 2016's The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen & Yayoi Kusama.

A Fairy Tale of Transformation and Beauty

The Ugly Duckling

Erika Fischer-Lichte

Nancy Spector

Sandra Umathum

This title chronicles seven consecutive nights of performances in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda of New York's Guggenheim Museum. This book includes a new piece by Abramovic, created specifically for this project, as well as her renditions of seminal performances by Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Valie Export, and Bruce Nauman.

7 Easy Pieces

Enrique Juncosa

Fernando Francés

Marina Abramovi? has been known for taking performance art to its limits, and her work is notable for its deployment of controversial concepts as it presents reconsiderations of human emotions in which unmediated communication between art, artist and audience is key. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at CAC Malaga and constituting a comprehensive survey of her work, from the beginnings of her career to her most recent projects, this book offers a captivating overview of what she has accomplished. Besides photos, a range of works and a list of solo exhibitions, it also includes sketches and archival documents, plus texts by Fernando Francés and Enrique Juncosa. 0Exhibition: Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain (23.05-31.08.2014).

Marina Abramović : holding emptiness : CAC Málaga, Centro de arte contemporáneo de Málaga, 23 Mayo - 31 Agosto 2014

Dobrila Denegri

Studio Stefania Miscetti (Rome, Italy)

Artwork by Marina Abramovic. Contributions by Dobrila de Negri.

Marina Abramovic. Performing body. Ediz. italiana e inglese

Marina Abramović: The Abramović method

For the past 25 years Marina Abramovic's career has been a personal investigation of physical limits and mental potential through the performance medium. Her extensive travels and encounters with non-Western cultures as diverse as Tibet, the Aborigines of Australia and Sufism have led to the realisation that all these cultures pushed the body to the physical extreme in order to eliminate the fear of death, pain and the physical limitations of Western society. 'Performance was the form enabling me to jump to that other space and dimension'. This concentration of mind and body has been realised in a series of spectacular performances such as Night Sea Crossing and The Great Wall of China Walk. Abramovic's works have increasingly centred on the mental and physical conditioning of the artist and the audience. Cleaning the House is an inner cleansing and self organisation in the form of a deeply personal scrapbook of images of people, places, texts designed in close collaboration with herself. There are very few books that consider the artist's motivations and emotions. Many different impulses and inspirations can produce an artwork. This book shows the processes you never see.

Marina Abramovic - Cleaning the House (Paper Only)

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist met Marina Abramovic in various circumstances and locations, in train stations, hotels and galleries as well as in her own private studio. An astonishing closeness comes out of this: the artist, who has been making her body the centre of attention of decades, in numerous, often agonizing performances, is revealed here as a fascinating personality. She speaks openly about her childhood and her parent's strict discipline, about her artistic work and the many journeys associated with it and of course about the preparations for her epochal retrospective, which will open at MoMA, New York in March 2010. Various colleagues and companions, such as Gustav Metzger, the Old Master of action art (Conversation Series, Vol. 16), also join in the conversation on occasion, aiding further insight into the life and work of this captivating artist.

Ulay

Dorine Mignot

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

Verslag van een project van de kunstenaars Marina Abramović en Ulay, waarbij zij, ieder voor zich, over de Chinese Muur lopen en elkaar na drie maanden halverwege ontmoeten.

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