SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE ART
Ahead of her performance piece “The artist is present” due to take place at MoMA in 2010, Abramovic talks about her photography, seen on display at the Armory Show in New York. To view click
The Art Newspaper Digital- Video Interview- Marina Abramović at the Armory Show– 03:48 min – April 2009
Happy Christmas, by Marina Abramovic, 2008. Silver Gelatin Print. Serbian. h: 53.9 x w: 53.9 in.
In this video interview, Abramovic discusses her unique performance-style art, and her technique of featuring herself in her powerful visual artworks.
The key featured piece of the show ‘Happy Christmas,’ pictured at right, she says was inspired by her current tumultuous divorce.
Of the recession, she remarks “For an artist it is good to have a recession, because then you come to the real values. Recession is the best thing that can happen. For an artist, the worst is the best. Now is the good time.”
Related Links:
- Armory Preview 2009– video report on the Armory Show midst the recession
- MoMA: Marina Abramovic- The Artist is Present
- Marina Abramovic at Manchester International Festival-video conversation- July 09
- Abramovic: Biography
- Catalogue of Abramovic’s work, 1975-present
- Abramovic in Manchester, review
Contributed by Erin Wooters
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