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Marina Abramović
The Kitchen 2009
Critically acclaimed artist Marina Abramović has created The Kitchen 2009, in homage to Gustav Metzger.
Marina Abramović
The Kitchen 2009
Lambda C Type
48 x 48 cm
Edition of 150
Temporarily unavailable
Marina Abramović (born in Yugoslavia, 1946) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. She began her career during the early 1970s, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Abramović was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 47th Venice Biennale 1997. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.
Photography has played an important part in Abramović’s practice, documenting performances, providing the only extant traces of those temporal acts. She describes photography as a mirror of her emotional state and often waits until the last moment of her performance before taking a photograph in order to keep the energy of the event within the image.
The Kitchen is a mysterious image, alluding to a space where only the simplest remnants of human life remain, lightly resting upon almost translucent marble shelves. This parallels Gustav Metzger’s focus on our relationship to our environment and his call for a more pared back, gentle relationship to the world around us.
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Marina Abramović
The Kitchen 2009
Lambda C Type
48 x 48 cm
Edition of 150
