The artist is present—again: Marina Abramović is restaging her best-known performance to benefit Ukraine:
Installation view of Marina Abramović: Performative," 2022, at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. Photo: Jason Wyche.The Artist is PresentThis month, thewill revisit her most famous work of art for a benefit auction to aid Ukrainian relief efforts.you can bid for an opportunity to be photographed sitting across from Abramović in a restaging ofat Sean Kelly Gallery, where a survey of her work is currently on view.
The resulting photograph will be framed and signed by both Abramović and Anelli. Winners will also receive a copy of the photographer’s 2021 book collecting the MoMA images,Installation view of Marina Abramović’s performanceat the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2010. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery.
Bidding for the auction’s two lots is open now through March 25. As of this article’s writing, bids for the lots are at $4,000 and $5,000, respectively. All of the proceeds from the sale will go toThe idea for the auction came from two Sean Kelly employees, archivist Robert Spring and gallery associate Terrill Warrenburg, shortly after Abramović’s exhibition opened on March 4. Kelly loved the idea, and when he phoned Abramović about it, she did too.
Two weeks later and the auction was live online. “We felt we needed to do something fast,” he told Artnet News. “We just feel it’s a huge imperative to get money into people’s hands as quickly as possible.”
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