Marina Abramovic Heads Up.
The self proclaimed 'grandmother of performance art.'
This fearless and unlimited artist is back with a retrospective in 2010 at the MOMA in New York.
Here's a great interview with the grande dame herself in Dazed and Confused.
But for those of us who cant traipse all the way to New York for Abramovic, the Sophie Calle 'Talking to Strangers' exhibition which is on at the Whitechapel Gallery delivers a fast fix of much needed feminine perspective in art.
Iwona Blazwick, the gallery's director in conversation with Claire Sacre says of the 56 year old Parisian, 'She's very candid about her love life, affairs and rejections. Instead of being an invisible super-being, she's on display as much as her subjects are. I expect we're going to see more and more work influenced by this idea of involving yourself as a work of art...She's brought in so many different mediums: narrative, fiction, performance, photography and really turned the nature of documentation upside down. If you think about the great movements and "isms", she stands alone.'
I have my own personal reservations on Calle's art, seeing the documentation and presentation clinical and flat, similar to the now 'dead' viennese action paintings but pop along for free and decide for yourself.
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present is at Moma in New York from March 14 to May 31, 2010. Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers is on now at the Whitechapel Gallery from 16 October 2009-3 January 2010
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