Marina Abramović: Unconditional Love
“These prints are made with love.
My hope is
to remind us all of
the transformative power of art.
I wanted to try something new and make this work
as affordable as possible for everyone.
Something for the kids to hang on their walls.
A daily reminder to be bold and courageous.
Our future needs unconditional generosity of spirit
and of being.
I hope the words in this manifesto inspire the transformation
that our world so desperately needs.
Urgently.
My love letter to the planet at this turbulent time,
from the bottom of my heart.
Love,
Marina”
CREATED WITH LOVE, CIRCA INTRODUCES AN AFFORDABLE SERIES OF THREE HAND-SIGNED (COA) AND DRAWN PRINTS BY THE PERFORMANCE ART PIONEER MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ.
Over the past 50 years, Abramović has captivated audiences by pushing the limits of her body and mind. With this intimate triptych, the art world warrior applies body to paper, carefully outlining her hands and iconic silhouette to create a striking new portrait. Expelling red pastel swirls of energy, the three prints centre around handwritten words taken from her ‘Unconditional Love’ manifesto, written and performed in 2023.
‘Marina Abramović, Unconditional Love (2023)’ is available for a limited time, exclusively on the CIRCA.ART website between 14 December 2023 and Valentine’s Day, 14 February 2024. Collectors can choose between ordering an individual print for £120+VAT or the complete set of three for £300+VAT.
Offered affordably by Abramović and CIRCA to reach as many people as possible, these two-colour (black and red) screen prints arrive with a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity (COA) for authentication. Proceeds from this timed edition will be shared between the artist and #CIRCAECONOMY – a circular model that supports free public art and creates life-changing opportunities for the wider community.
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WIN A FREE PRINT!
In keeping with the spirit of accessibility, upload a video to social media reciting the ‘Unconditional Love’ manifesto (see below) to win a free print by Marina Abramović. Winning recitals will be re-posted on the official Marina Abramović Institute Instagram. Submissions are welcomed in all languages.
#UnconditionalLoveTriptych tagging @abramovicinstitute and @circa.art, before 14 February 2024.
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
‘UNCONDITIONAL LOVE’
MANIFESTO, 2023
TOGETHER WE ARE SPREADING A STRONG ENERGETIC VIBRATION
WE ARE TRANSFORMING NEGATIVITY
WE ARE INVITING POSITIVITY
WE ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH OUR PLANET
WE ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH OUR PLANET
WE ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH OUR PLANET
TOGETHER WE ARE LEARNING
TO LOVE ALL HUMAN BEINGS
TOGETHER WE ARE LEARNING
TO LOVE ALL HUMAN BEINGS
TOGETHER WE ARE LEARNING
TO LOVE ALL HUMAN BEINGS
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WILL CHANGE US
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WILL CHANGE US
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WILL CHANGE US
TOGETHER WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
TOGETHER WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
TOGETHER WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form. She created some of the most important early works in this practice, including Rhythm 0 (1974), in which she offered herself as an object of experimentation for the audience, as well as Rhythm 5 (1974), where she lay in the centre of a burning five-point star to the point of losing consciousness. These performances married concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control, and passivity with danger. They pushed the boundaries of self-discovery, both of herself and her audience. They also marked her first engagements with time, stillness, energy, pain, and the resulting heightened consciousness generated by long durational performance.
In 2012, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art focusing on performance, long durational works, and using the ‘Abramović Method’. MAI is a platform for immaterial and long-duration work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Abramović was one of the first performance artists to become formally accepted by the institutional museum world, with major solo shows taking place throughout Europe and the US over more than 25 years. In 2023, Abramović became the first female artist to host a major solo exhibition in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Her first European retrospective ‘The Cleaner’ was presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2017, followed by presentations at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, Henie Onstad, Sanvika, Norway (2017), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (2018), Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun (2019), and concluding at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia (2019). In 2010, Abramovic had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1997, Abramovic was awarded the Golden Lion Award for Best Artist for her performance of Balkan Baroque at the Venice Biennale. In 2006, Abramovic received the U.S. Art Critics Association Award for Best Exhibition of Time-Based Art for her performance of Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim in New York City. In 2008, Abramovic received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art in Vienna. In 2011, she was awarded Honorary Royal Academician status by The Royal Academy in London. In 2013, Abramovic was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officer for her work in Bolero, Paris. In 2014, Abramovic was named one of The 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine. In 2021, Abramovic was awarded the Princess de Asturias Award for the Arts in Spain.