Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful | AS ONE | NEON & MAI | Benaki Museum, 2016
Reperformance
Marina Abramović | Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975)
March-April 2016
In Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975), originally
performed and documented at the Charlottenburg Art Festival, Copenhagen,
Abramović sits, naked, holding a brush in one hand and a comb in the
other. For just under an hour, she brushes her hair forcefully, yanking,
tugging and even tearing at it, while repeating the mantra “art must be
beautiful, artist must be beautiful”. For several minutes at a time,
she falls silent and with a still gaze, she stares blankly into the
distance before recommencing the punitive beauty routine. This is the
first time that this work will be re-performed in Europe and has only
been re-performed on one other occasion, in 2016 in Shanghai as part of
the project “15 Rooms”.
re-performance: 8 hours with
Dimitris Bampilis | Dimitra Billia | Gitsa Konstadoudaki | Martha Pasakopoulou | Eliane Roumie | Vassiliki Spachou | Kalliopi Zervoulakou
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Marina Abramović, Art
Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be
Beautiful (1975), re-performance by Vassiliki Spachou, commissioned and
produced by NEON + MAI on the occasion of AS ONE, Benaki Museum, Athens, 10 March – 24 April
2016, Photography by Natalia Tsoukala
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