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14/11/2002

Marina Abramovic

Sean Kelly Gallery (old location), New York

The House with the Ocean View

Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of new works by Marina Abramovic. This is Abramovic's first solo exhibition in New York since 1997.

Marina Abramovic's Dream Bed is a sculpture which visitors are invited to use for one complete hour. By doing so, each user will participate in the ritualization of sleep, dreaming and/or lying, paralleling Abramovic's own commitment in The House with the Ocean View.

Hour long appointments to use Dream Bed can be made by contacting the gallery in advance. There will be a contract for participants to sign stating their commitment to take an active part in Dream Bed by using it for one complete hour while wearing the intended Dream Clothing and thereafter recording their experience in the Dream Book. Dream Bed participants will become part of the exhibition and will be on public view. At the end of the exhibition Certificates of Completion signed by the artist will be sent to those who used Dream Bed.

The exhibition is comprised of a major new performance The House with the Ocean View which the artist describes as the most important one of her career to date, Dream Bed - a sculpture the public can use and Stromboli - a new video installation. Each work demonstrates part of Abramovic's concern with creating works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming, and thinking; in effect the manifestation of a unique mental state. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the most historic early performance pieces and is the only one still making important durational works.

The House with the Ocean View is a public living installation: for the first twelve days of the exhibition Abramovic will fast following a strictly defined regimen in three specially constructed living units in the main gallery space. For this unique and challenging performance, the gallery will have special hours (see below), to facilitate repeated attendance by the public, as their presence is integral to the work.

Dream Bed is a sculpture which visitors are contractually invited to use for one complete hour. Each user will thus participate in the ritualization of sleep, dreaming and/or lying. The public's involvement parallels Abramovic's commitment in The House with the Ocean View. Appointments to use Dream Bed can be made by contacting the gallery.

Stromboli, a single channel 30 minute video, is named for the island south of Sicily that is the only permanently active volcano in Europe and has experienced small eruptions approximately every 15 minutes for the last 2000 years. In the video the artist lies at the edge of the ocean, between land and sea, her head moving in response to the waves.

Marina Abramovic, born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her extraordinary video installation/performance piece Balkan Baroque. Her work is included in many major public collections worldwide including: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kunstmuseum Bern. Recent solo exhibitions have included: Marina Abramovic: The Hero, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Marking the Territory, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Hunt, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu; Spirit Houses, Bourganeuf; Marina Abramovic, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, and Public Body ­ Artist Body, Kunstverein Hannover. Abramovic has an important forthcoming retrospective in 2005 at the Kunst und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn.

Exhibition Dates: November 15 ­ December 21

Living Installation Dates: November 15 - November 26

The gallery is open 9am until 6pm every day during the Living Installation, November 15 - November 26. We will have extended hours on November 22 from 9am until midnight. On November 27 we will return to our regular hours, Tuesday through Friday, from 11am until 6pm and 10am until 6pm on Saturdays.
The gallery is closed on Thanksgiving.

Please contact Amy Gotzler at the gallery 212.239.1181

Sean Kelly Gallery
528 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel. (212) 239.1181
Fax. (212) 239.2467

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