Autobiography "Walk Through Walls" signed by the author, legendary artist Marina Abramovic.
Two full-color 8-page inserts and more than 100 black-and-white photographs throughout the book.
"I experienced absolute freedom - I felt that my body was without limits, without boundaries; that pain didn't matter, that nothing mattered everything - and that intoxicated me."
In 2010, more than 750,000 people lined up for Marina Abramovic's retrospective at MoMA to have a chance to sit across from her and communicate with her non-verbally during an unprecedented performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This experience, nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art, once again showed Marina Abramovic to be a true force of nature. As the child of communist war-hero parents under Tito in post-war Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she began to build an international career as an artist, Marina lived at home under her mother's aggressive control, strictly enforcing a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could dampen her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor - all of which influence her art and her life. The heart-pounding "Walk Through Walls" is also a love story and a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performer Ulay, most of which was spent penniless in a van traveling around Europe - a relationship that began to unravel, ending at the Great Wall of China. Marina's story, by turns moving, epic and waspishly funny, is the basis for an unparalleled artistic career of pushing the boundaries of fear, pain, exhaustion and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. An extraordinary performance work in its own right, "Walk Through Walls" is a vivid and powerful portrayal of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
Year of publication 2016, English language, US origin
370 pages, dimensions 17 x 24 cm