4100 - Abramovic, Marina

Abramovic, Marina Light Side/Dark Side, from the Exit Art portfolio Trance/Borders. 2006. Resin-coated type laser-exposed print on Ilfospeed resin-coated digital paper. 40 x 44 cm (sheet 55,8 x 76,2 cm). Signed, dated and editioned "II/IVI AP" by the photographer in black ink below the image in the margin. Matted and framed under plexiglass in wooden frame. Serbian conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramovic has explored body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over four decades, she has been described as the "grandmother of performance art", turning performance into a recognized, mainstream art form, as she uses her own body as the primary medium. In the present work Light Side/Dark Side, Abramovic explores the interplay of being both visible and hidden, which symbolizes the tension between lived experience and obscured vulnerable conditions, beauty and façade, strength and weakness, resilience and exposure. Prints of this image are in the collections of several renowned museums such as the MoMA, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art. – Surface slightly undulated, otherwise in very good condition.