ABSTRACT
Marina Abramovic´ has described herself as the ‘grandmother’ of performance art and, indeed, her illustrious career began in the 1960s and continues today. As an artist, a performer and an artists’ mentor, her influence has been both extensive and remarkable; her extraordinary and demanding approach to art-making resonating with her own, as well as a new, generation of artists. Over the past five decades, however, her work has undergone a number of transformations that mirror the evolution of her own existence as both an artist and as a person.
