The cleaner
Subtitle: Marina Abramović
By: editor, Lena Essling ; translations, Glen Garner, Saskia Vogel
Contributors: Essling, Lena, editor; Garner, Glen (Translator), translator; Vogel, Saskia, translator; Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark); Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Series: Moderna Museet exhibition catalog -- no. 394; Moderna museets utställningskatalog -- nr. 394.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9783775742610
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions; Artists; Performance art; Biography; Performance artists
Other titles: Marina Abramovic, the cleaner
Description: At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic (*1946 in Belgrade, Serbia) is one of the most discussed artists today. Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to expand the boundaries of art. The publication accompanying her first major retrospective in Europe gives an extensive overview of her work from the earliest years until today: film, photography, paintings and objects, installations and archival material. Since the early 1970s Marina Abramovic explores the intersection between performing and visual art in her work and, though rarely overtly political, poses questions of power and hierarchy. In addressing fundamental issues of our existence and seeking the core of notions like loss, memory, pain, endurance, and trust, she both provokes and moves us. Exhibition: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (18.02.2017-21.05.2017) / Louisiana Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark (16.06.2017-22.10.2017) / Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (20.04.2017-12.08.2017).
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Marina Abramović--the cleaner, held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, February 18-May 21, 2017; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, June 17-October 22, 2017; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, April 20-August 12, 2018.

Includes translations from German, Danish and Swedish.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267).
Table of contents: title: The cloud in the room / Lena Essling; title: Key formulas painted out : collision and contemplation / Tine Colstrup; title: Liquid knowledge / Marina Abramović in conversation with Adrian Heathfield; title: Plates. Early solo works, 1965-1975 ; Works with Ulay, 1976-1988 ; Solo works, 1991-2017; title: An artist's life in manifesto / Marina Abramović; title: And now let's remember ... Yugoslavia / Bojana Pejić; title: Luminosity in the north : locating the spiritual in Marina Abramović's art / Devin Zuber.