Nude with Bull Head

Nude with bull head is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Marina Abramovic in 2006.

Black and white photograph mounted on aluminium.

Ex. AP 2/2. 

The artwork includes authenticity certificate by Galerie Guy Bärtschi Genève.   

Marina Abramovic was born in 1946 in Belgrade.
She defines herself as the "Grandmother of performance art": her work explores the relationships between the artist and the public, sharpening the contrasts between the limits of the body and the various possibilities of the mind. From 1965 to 1972 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, from 1973 to 1975 he was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad. In 1973 he debuted with the performance “Rhythm 10”, in which he highlighted the importance of gestures and the replication of the past.
The following year he was in Naples with “Rhythm 0”. The artist lies passively next to instruments of pleasure and pain that the audience can use freely.
In 1975 it was the turn of "Art must be beautiful", Marina brushed herself with two metal combs until she disfigured her face and ruined her hair.
In 1976 he left Yugoslavia to move to Amsterdam and in the same year he began an artistic and personal partnership with Ulay, a German artist. The couple stages various performances including “Imponderabilia” in Bologna. The relationship lasts twelve years and ends in 1988 with "The Lovers". They both walk along the Great Wall of China, starting from opposite ends, meeting for the last time. However, Marina Abramovic's true masterpiece will be "BalKan Baroque". While the bloody war in the Balkans was underway, the artist presented a performance at the 1997 Venice Biennale in which he sat on a pile of cattle bones which he compulsively brushed in order to eliminate blood, putrid meat and worms. A metaphor that will be awarded the Golden Lion. In 2010 at the MoMa in New York he created “The Artist is present”. The artist, sitting still, challenges the audience present to hold her gaze. 512 Hours is his most recent performance, presented at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2014.