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During the 8th Florence Biennale, the prestigious "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to performance artist Marina Abramović. At the Biennale, the artist presented an exhibition dedicated to her videos and gave a world premiere of her Manifesto, arousing the enthusiasm of those present and generating enormous interest in the national and international media, including CNN, which dedicated a report to the entire event.
The body as a subject and as an artistic medium
Born in Belgrade in 1946, Marina Abramović is undoubtedly one of the most significant artists of our time. Since the beginning of her career in Yugoslavia in the 1970s, when she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Marina Abramović has favoured performance as a form of visual art.
The body has always been both her subject and her medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her existence, she has endured suffering, fatigue and danger in search of emotional and spiritual transformation. He has made works that ritualize simple everyday actions such as lying or sitting, dreaming and thinking.
A vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden, Marina Abramović created some of the earliest historic performance works.
The body has always been both her subject and her medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her existence, she has endured suffering, fatigue and danger in search of emotional and spiritual transformation. He has made works that ritualize simple everyday actions such as lying or sitting, dreaming and thinking.
A vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden, Marina Abramović created some of the earliest historic performance works.
Marina Abramović in Italy and in the world
From 1975 to 1988, Marina Abramović and the German artist Ulay made several performances together, dealing with the concept of relationship and duality. After separating, Marina Abramović returned to working alone, presenting her work with sound, photography, video, sculpture and "transient objects for human and non-human use" in individual and group performances at major institutions in the United States and Europe. She has also taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America.
She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her extraordinary video installation/performance Balkan Baroque and in 2003 received the Bessie for The House with the Ocean View, a 12-day performance at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. In 2005 Marina Abramović presented Balkan Erotic Epic at Hangar Bicocca and at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The same year she presented the performance series Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her extraordinary video installation/performance Balkan Baroque and in 2003 received the Bessie for The House with the Ocean View, a 12-day performance at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. In 2005 Marina Abramović presented Balkan Erotic Epic at Hangar Bicocca and at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The same year she presented the performance series Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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