| Marina Abramović in Present Tense |
| Spring 2010 - Performance | |||
The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art presents Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the first U.S. large-scale museum retrospective of the artist’s groundbreaking performance work, from March 14 to May 31. Internationally recognized as a pioneer and key figure in performance art, Marina Abramović (Serbian, b. 1946) uses her own body as subject, object, and medium, exploring the physical and mental limits of her being by creating pieces that require her to withstand pain, exhaustion, and discomfort in the quest for artistic, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual transformation. The exhibition traces Abramović’s prolific career with approximately 50 works spanning over four decades of early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photography, solo performances, and collaborative performances. Also included are the world premiere of a new work to be performed by Abramović herself and reperformances of influential historical pieces by performers selected especially for this exhibition. The live reperformances complement and amplify a chronological installation of the artist’s work that shows the different modes of representing, documenting, and exhibiting her ephemeral, time- and media-based works.
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