In my work, all the transitory objects have one thing in common: they do not exist on their own; the public must interact with them . Some objects are there to empty the viewer, some to give energy, and some to make a mental departure possible.
The energy blanket is one of those objects which functions to give energy to the user. Marina Abramovic
Energy Blanket by Marina Abramovic for More Art is a functional art product that offers unique visual and practical stimuli for understanding Abramovic's concept of energy transference. The soft, white blanket features the artist's printed sketch of a radiant human form and includes magnets for contact with 14 of the body's energy points - vividly indicated in the sketch - so that the blanket may be used in conjunction with magnetic therapy. Magnetic therapy is a centuries -old wellness technique that is recognized and practiced around the world. Modern studies have shown that contact with static magnetic fields can increase blood flow. Improved circulation helps reduce pain and swelling and enables the body to perform its natural healing process.
For more information about magnetic therapy, go to www.nccam.nih.gov, the website of the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
About Marina Abramovic
born in 1946 in the former Yugoslavia, is one of the most seminal artists of our time. Beginning in the early 1970s, Abramovic pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, focusing on the body as both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and dang er in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. She has exhibited and lectured worldwide. Among her many honors, she has been awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale and received the Bessie Award in 2003. Current and upcoming projects include a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2010), a theatre piece directed by Robert Wilson to premier in 2011, and the opening of the M.A.I (Marina Abramovic Institute) in 2012.
(Text by More art 2010)
Product Fact Sheet
Name: Energy Blanket by Marina Abramovic for More Art
Description
Energy Blanket is an art product resulting from Marina Abramovic's work with energy transference. The
blanket is printed with the artist's sketch of the human form and some of its energy points. Magnets are
provided so that the blanket may be used in conjunction with magnetic therapy.
List of Contents
1 Blanket, 78" h x 42" w, polyester
1 Pouch, 16" h x 33" w, polyester
16 Neodymium Magnets (2 extra magnets included), 112" diameter
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Marina Abramović
Biography
1946, born in Belgrade (Serbia)
Lives in New York City (USA)
Marina Abramović is a pioneer of performance as a visual art form. Since the 1970s, she has used her body as a subject and as a medium in her grueling long-term performances to exhaust her
physical, mental and emotional boundaries – often even risking her life in search of enhanced awareness, transcendence and self-transformation. For the Serbian artist, the concept of time is an
important aspect in her work, as well as the inclusion of the public. The significance of this dimension of her work could be seen in her performances Thomas Lips (1975) at the Galerie Krinzinger
and in her performances Seven Easy Pieces (2005) at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Artist is Present (2010) as part of her eponymous retrospective at MoMA, New York or 512 Hours (2014) at
the London Serpentine Gallery. Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form, creating some of the most
important early works. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits in works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life, she has
withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. From 1975 until 1988, Abramovic and the German artist Ulay performed together, dealing with rations
of duality. Abramović returned to solo performances in 1989.
Marina Abramovic's works – performances, sounds, photographs, videos, sculptures, and transitory objects for human and non-human use – have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions in the USA
and Europe, and in many large international group exhibitions, as, for instance, at the Biennale di Venezia (1976 and 1997) and at the documenta VI, VII and XI in Kassel. Marina Abramović was
awarded the Golden Lion as Best Artist for her extraordinary video installation / performance Balkan Baroque, her reaction to the Yugoslav War in 1997. In 2003, she received the Bessie Award for
her 12-day performance The House with the Ocean View at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. In 2005, the premiere of the performance series Seven Easy Pieces took place in the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York. In 2008, she was awarded by the now former President of Austria, Heinz Fischer, the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art. In 2011, she was appointed Honorary Member
of the Royal Academy of Arts (Hon. RA), London. With her performance and retrospective, The Artist is Present at the MoMA, New York which also played a major role in the eponymous film
co-produced by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. She was awarded the Panorama Audience Award in the documentary film category in 2012 following the first European showing at the 62nd
International Film Festival in Berlin. In the same year, Abramović's opera performance The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, directed by Robert Wilson, premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid
and the participatory project The Abramović Method took place for the first time at the PAC in Milan. In 2016, she released her gripping autobiography Walk Through Walls. In 2018, the
retrospective The Cleaner was on display at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn (was previously shown at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, and the Henie Onstad
Art Center, Høvikodden). In September 2019, the retrospective traveled to the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Simultaneously with her solo exhibition Two Hearts at the Galerie Krinzinger, the
GLOBART think tank marked Marina Abramović as the most important performance artist of the present with the GLOBART AWARD 2018.
Ursula Krinzinger and Marina Abramović look back on decades of friendship and cooperation. As early as 1975, selected works by Marina Abramović and her performance Thomas Lips were to be seen
under the title Photo Documentation of Performances Rhythms 10, 2, 5, 4, 0 at Galerie Krinzinger in Innsbruck. In October 1976, Marina Abramovic was a participant at a performance festival in a
former school in Brdo, Slovenia, organized by Ursula Krinzinger and Peter Weiermeir. Nine years later, the artist convinced with the work Photographic Documentation of Performance in the group
exhibition Symbol Tier (1985) also in the Innsbruck gallery. In 1992, Marina Abramović surprised the Viennese audience with her solo exhibition Transitory Objects. (There is also a publication on
the occasion of this exhibition.) In 2012, Marina Abramović showed With Eyes Closed I See Happiness self-portraits and objects. In 2017, the series Holding Emptiness (2012) was exhibited in the
group show ICON.