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Marina Abramović (born Belgrade, Serbia, 30 Nov 1946) is a pioneering conceptual and performance artist whose work explores body and endurance art. Her work also investigates the relationship between performer and audience, notably by involving the participation of observers to uncover fresh notions of identity. Active for 50 years, she considers herself as the ‘grandmother of performance art’. Her output has consistently pushed the boundaries of what it means to create performance as a visual form.
Credit to: https://www.eno.org/composers/marina-abramovic/
Marina Abramovic Ulay 1987 diptych
Michael Klein is a private dealer and freelance and independent curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations. He is a highly regarded writer, curator, and program director. He served as the first in house Curator for the Microsoft Art Collection based in Redmond, Washington between 1999 and 2006 directing art acquisitions, commissions, collection management in house exhibitions and an education program for the company’s 50,000 employees.
and has been the executive director of the International Sculpture Center based in New Jersey. Klein has been a regular contributor to Sculpture Magazine in addition to writing reviews and feature articles for Art in America, ARTnews, Artnet and www.theartsection.com, among others. He has presented public lectures across the US and
has served as adjunct faculty to New York University in New York as well as other universities and colleges.
His first curatorial projects were with the Williams College Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN where he help develop and organize a wide range of contemporary and modern art exhibitions.
Between 1983 and 1997 he was owner of Michael Klein Gallery, New York representing some 20 emerging and mid career American and European artists.
Website: www.michaelkleinarts.com