Marina was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, on November 30, 1946 by parents who held senior positions in the communist government. His father, Vojin, was in the marshal's elite guard and his mother, Danica, an art historian. After her father left the family, her mother took strict control of XNUMX-year-old Abramović and her younger brother, Velimir. Her mother despite a difficult and sometimes violent temper supported her daughter's interest in art. Throughout her adolescence, Marina saw and attended numerous Biennales in Venice, getting to know artists from outside communist Yugoslavia such as the abstract expressionist, Robert Rauschenberg.
Marina created pioneering works when performance art was an emerging art form in Europe. During a trip to Amsterdam in 1975, he met the German artist Frank Uwe “Ulay” Laysiepen. Passionate and purposeful pioneers, Abramovic and Ulay criss-crossed Europe in a van, lived with Aboriginal Australians and in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, and spent time in the Sahara, Thar and Gobi deserts. Their artistic alliance was a concert of affection and attachment, physically meditated in Relation in Time, in which they sat back to back with their hair tied together. In Imponderabilia (1977), the couple stood naked in a narrow doorway, forcing viewers to pass between them. When in 1988 Abramovic and Ulay decided to end their artistic collaboration and personal relationship, they embarked on a piece called The Lovers. Each started at a different end of the Great Wall of China and hiked for three months until they met in the middle and went their separate ways. From experience, they have had little contact and continue to work independently. After separating from Ulay, Marina went back to doing work alone, working more and more with video art. In 1989, you began making a series of sculptural works. In addition to her performances, Abramovic taught at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1990-1991, as well as at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Hamburg.
In 2010, with The Artist Is Present, gave birth to a performance that lasted 736 hours (seven hours a day, every day, for three months) at the MoMA in New York. A table, two chairs, in one she in the other whoever wanted to observe her. And finally a performance they meet again. On that occasion he also sat down in front of her Ulay, who was his life partner for twelve years. He was invited to the performance without the artist's knowledge. An intense moment where audience and artist mix.
Investment valuation ⭐️⭐️ (It should be considered that his works are above all performances)
But how much is his work worth?
Some of the latest awards:
Dozing Consciousness, 2001 – C Print (in artist's frame) Ed. 3 / 7 (128,5 x 128,5 cm)
Clearing price: €9.917 (£8.500) Price including charges: €12.396 (£10.625) Starting price: €8.166 (£7.000) Estimate: €11.667 – €17.500 (£10.000 – £15.000) Sotheby's, 19/11/2019London, United Kingdom
Origin: Kappatos Gallery, Athens; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
delusional, 1994 – Gelatin-silver print, vintage (53,5 x 35 cm).
Clearing price: €1.300 Price including charges: €1.625 Estimate: €1.400 – €2.400 Il Ponte Casa D'aste Srl, 13/06/2019Milan, Italy
Inscribed Title “Ben Van Duin, Amsterdam” / verso
The composer, Berne, 2002 – Chromogenic press. Ed 3/7 (104 x 134cm).
Clearing price: €9.500 Price including charges: €12.350 Estimate: €10.000 – €15.000 Digard Auction, 08/11/2019DROUOT-RICHELIEU, Paris, France
Provenance : Galerie Guy Bârtschi, GenèveExposure: 2005, Genève, Galerie Guy Bârtschi, “Marina Abramovic – photographies et objets”, catalog reproduit page 42-43.
Rhythm 10 (The Biography), 1973-2002 – Cibachrome/aluminium – Ed. AP 2 / 2 (150 x 125 cm).
Clearing price: €55.000 Price including expenses: €68.750 Estimate: €60.000 – €80.000 Christie's , 05/11/2019Paris, France
Origin: Atelier de l'artiste. Attilio Maranzano. Galeria Fornello, Italy. Acquis directly auprès de cells-ci par le propriétaire actuel en 2010-2011.
"Cleaning the Floor", 2004 - Chromogenic, flush-mounted print - Ed. 2 / 5 (130,19 x 99,4 cm).
Clearing price: €54.845 ($60.000) Price including charges: €68.556 ($75.000) Estimate: €54.845 – €73.126 ($60.000 – $80.000 ) Phillips, 01/10/2019New York, United States
Hand signed. Dated.
Portrait with Falcon, 2011 – C Print – Ed. 3 / 25 (30,5 x 30,5 cm).
Clearing price: €3.397 ($4.000) Price including charges: €4.246 ($5.000) Estimate: €3.397 – €5.095 ($4.000 – $6.000 ) Sotheby's, 25/09/2018New York, United States
Origin: Private Collection, New YorkExposure: New York, Leila Heller Gallery, 2014
