Fausto Gilberti's Children's Book on Marina Abramović

Italian artist Fausto Gilberti has published a new illustrated children's book about Marina Abramović, titled "Marina Abramović secondo Fausto Gilberti" (Corraini, 2024, €13.50, ISBN 9791254930922). The book is part of Gilberti's series of minimalist black-and-white portraits of 20th-century artists, following volumes on Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama. Written in first person from Abramović's perspective, it covers her childhood in Yugoslavia under strict mother Danica, her early painting experiments, and her groundbreaking performance "Rhythm 0" at Studio Morra in Naples in 1974, where she remained motionless for six hours while the audience could interact with her. The book also details her partnership with Ulay, including performances "Relation in Time" and "Relation in Space" (1976), "Breathing In/Breathing Out," and "Imponderabilia" at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Bologna on June 2, 1977, where 350 people passed between the artists' naked bodies before police intervened. It concludes with "The Artist Is Present" at MoMA in New York, where Abramović sat for 90 days and 700 hours, meeting the eyes of over 1,675 people, attracting more than 800,000 visitors. The 48-page book is published by Corraini.