Marina Abramovic to Be Awarded at the Florence Biennale

The seventh copy of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will crop abode at the celebrated Fortezza da Basso in Florence from 5-13 December, 2009. Marina Abramovic, the acclaimed achievement artist, will be the honoured bedfellow at this copy and she will be awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico prize.

800 artists advancing from 80 countries will be announcement added than 2,500 artworks and there will be an amazing affair of cultures, languages and assorted aesthetic styles. The Florence Biennale supports the United Nations affairs “Dialogue amid civilizations”, to which the Biennale has clearly adhered back 2001.

As always, the Biennale will see the attendance of important artists: In the 2007 edition, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico" career cost was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 copy to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney. In the 2009 edition, Marina Abramovic will accommodated both the artists accommodating at the Biennale and visitors to the Biennale, in allotment of the affluent agenda of conferences, affairs and video projections.

Marina Abramovic, complete in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is after catechism one of the seminal artists of our time. Since the alpha of her career in Yugoslavia during the aboriginal 1970s, area she abounding the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramovic has pioneered the use of achievement as a beheld art form. The anatomy has consistently been both her accountable and medium. Exploring the concrete and brainy banned of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and crisis in the adventure for affecting and airy transformation. She creates works that bless the simple accomplishments of accustomed activity such as lying, sitting, absent and thinking. As a basic affiliate of the bearing of beat achievement artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the a lot of celebrated aboriginal achievement pieces and is the alone one still authoritative important durational works.

From 1975 until 1988, Abramovic and the German artisan Ulay performed together, ambidextrous with relations of duality. After amid in 1988, Abramovic alternate to abandoned performances in 1989. Abramovic has presented her plan with performances, sound, photography, video, sculpture, and ‘Transitory Objects for Human and Non Human Use’ in abandoned and accumulation exhibitions at above institutions in the U.S. and Europe. She has aswell accomplished and lectured abundantly in Europe and America.

She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her amazing video installation/performance area Balkan Baroque‚ and in 2003 accustomed the Bessie for The House with the Ocean View‚ a 12-day achievement at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. In 2005, Abramovic presented Balkan Erotic Epic at the Pirelli Foundation in Milan, Italy and at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. That aforementioned year, she captivated a alternation of performances alleged Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She is currently assuming in a accumulation exhibition “worlds on video” at the Strozzina in Florence, Italy.

Abramovic’s plan is included in abounding above accessible collections worldwide.

For added information: http://www.florencebiennale.org

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