The Premium Imperial, provided by the Japan Art Association, is on the International Art Award, often called the “Nobel Prize of Kala”. The award recipients receive each 15 million yen (€ 87,000 / $ 102,000).
Among them are the performance artists Marina Abramovic, Scottish painter Peter Doig, Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Maura, Hungarian Pianoist Andras Shif and Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Korsmaker, the organizers revealed on Tuesday.
‘Full freedom’ through performance
Born in 1946 in Belgrade, Serbia, Marina Abramovic studied art in her hometown and zagreb, Croatia. Developed in interest in performance art, including experimentation with sound installation.
In 1973, the young artist was invited to Edinburgh, Scotland for an international art festival, where he started his first provocative performance work.
The title “Rhythm 10,” Abramovic threw 10 sharp knives between his splashing fingers – a Daredevil Act in which she missed and shed blood. In Edinburgh, where young artists and topical painters met the prestigious German performance artist Joseph Bayes, so he realized that he had found his medium.
“I had complete freedom experience – I felt that my body was without limits, it was infinite; This pain did not matter, that nothing matures – and it all tocuses me,” Remembering Abramovic of that first performance in his 2016 autobiography, “Walls Through Walls.”
“I was intoxicated by the overwelling energy that I had received. That the moment I knew I had got my medium. There was no painting, no object that I could make, everyone could give me that kind of feeling, and it was a feeling that I knew that I would have to find again and again.”
Testing of limits
Abramovic has carved a reputation as a leading performance artist, which continues to test his physical and psychological boundaries.
Probably his most stimulating initial work “Rhythm 0,” a performance in Italy, this time in Naples. In this, Abramovic directed the audience: “There are 72 objects on the table that can be used as desired on me.”
Objects including razor blades, knives and a stuffed gun. The artists were sitting in motionless because people used to open her clothes or kill her skin. A person targeted a gun filled with head. “If you leave it to the audience, they can kill you,” Abramovic said the performance in which he is ready to highlight the underlying human cruelty.
Before that year, his performance “Rhythm 5” included a burning communist star. He put himself in the middle of it and burnt her hair and nails. When the fire consumed all oxygen, Abramovic turned out to be.
The career path was soon taken up with German artist Frank “Ulaya” Uve Lacepene, who became a lover and associate of Abramovic for 12 years in 1976.
1977 performance ,Emporebilia “was distinctive to his ovure; Abramovic and Ulaya stood at the entrance of a Bologna museum, forcing visitors to squeeze them to enter.
This work is now done by other artists at the Royal Academy. Here too, visitors have to squeeze between two naked models to enter the show. However, there is a separate entrance for those who are uncomfortable with participating in unusual performances.
Marina Abramovic and Ulaya lived as free spirits in their small Citroen bus for four years, traveled and performed from Europe.
Even in 1988, what his isolation sealed with a detailed performance. In a piece called “The Lovers”, they used to move towards each other along the great wall of China, starting from the opposite ends and meet in the middle. After covering some 4,000 kilometers (2485 mi), he said goodbye.
Balkan Baroc
The separation inspired the artist to break the new land.
In 1997, he did a comment on Yugoslav wars in the international section of Venice Bienle, called “Balkan Baroque”, in which he spent seven hours a day in washing the mountain of bloody cow’s bones. His performance was awarded the Golden Lion.
Since the 1990s, she has been teaching young performance artists “Abramovic Vidhi”. She moved to New York in 2000, where despite some local frugality for her work, developed the theater pieces, performance and an encounter with other artists.
In “House with the Ocean View”, the artist spent 12 days without food in three open rooms, in which he created an intimate relationship between himself and the audience.
The topic continued in a 2010 performance at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, “The Artist is present,” in which she used the lover’s eyes on a table from a wooden stool with the audience members on a table, in which she sits for six hours – stones like Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Beork and Lady Gaga used Kusi.
Ex -lover Ulaya, whom he had not spoken over the years, showed famous without warning and saw the star artist. They both cried.
Decide to be happy
Since the decade, his actions have been less than violence and more painted by penance and memory. His method is based on a mixture of various esoteric and eastern relaxation and meditation exercises. She spends a monastery in India at the end of every year and spends to charge his battery. “We have to create a situation where our bodies are healthy and function well,” he said.
The Serbian artist has been accused of developing from artist to Shama, although he has grown great in a stimulating career. For example, in 2018, he was attacked with a picture of himself that he signed a book for “Marina Abramovic Interview 1976-2018” in Florence, Italy. After the incident, she returned to her home in Belgrade to kick her retrospective “cleaner”.
In 2020, Abramovic launched the operative project, “7 Deaths of Maria Calus” at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. In this, he re-implemented seven of the callus’s most famous on-stage deaths. “Like many opera heroines, what she built on stage, she also died with love. She died with a broken heart,” Star’s Abramovic said – why she praised a lot.
Pain as part of human experience
In 2023, the performance artist had a brush with death that was not inspired by one of his extreme performances.
During a minor operation at the hospital in May, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, due to which he had to undergo three operations and nine blood transfers. She was in deep care for six weeks, spending some time in a coma.
To deal with hard episodes, he used all the skills developed through his performance: “Working with consciousness working with Breathing, Petin,” he later explained at the inauguration of an exhibition at the Royal Academy in September that year.
“We are very afraid of pain. I don’t like pain, but I think pain is a search to import elements in human life,” he said. “Understanding yourself is like a kind of gate to understand the universe.”
This article is an updated version of a previous profile, published for the 75th birthday of Marina Abramovic on November 30, 2021 for the first time.
Edited by: Sarah Hukal
