The exhibition "Between Breath and Fire" dedicated to Marina Abramović, one of the most influential artistic figures of our time opened on September 14 at the Gres Art 671 space in Bergamo.
"Between Breath and Fire", the title of this significant exhibition, explores key themes that have defined the artist's fifty-year career: breath, the body, relationships with others, and death.
Thirty recent and historical works are presented in an osmotic relationship with the Gres Art 671 exhibition space and for the first time, the exhibition also extends into the garden with the sound artwork Tree, where birdsong played among the trees blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, between reality and fiction, between mortality and transcendence.
At the heart of the project is the cinematic installation Seven Deaths, dedicated by Marina Abramović to Maria Callas, whom she becomes a sort of alter ego for. It’s a love that began during the Serbian artist's adolescence when she first heard the voice of the Divine Callas in her grandmother's kitchen in Belgrade and was so impressed by its emotional power.
The exhibition not only features historical works but also pieces that Abramović has chosen to update and reactivate, with the involvement of the audience, who are called to play an active role within the exhibition itself.
The post-industrial space where the exhibition is held, once the industrial complex known as "exGres," now hosts a vibrant cultural and social hub in the city of Bergamo.
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