From The New York Times:
The artist Marina Abramovic is no stranger to controversial performances, but she found herself involved in an unscripted spectacle on Sunday when an aspiring artist hit her with a painting.
Ms. Abramovic was leaving a book signing at the Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence, which is hosting Italy’s first major retrospective of her art, when a man slammed a paper portrait he had made of Ms. Abramovic over her head.
The sudden act drew horrified gasps from several people in the crowd that had been following Ms. Abramovic through the palazzo. “She was attacked,” one woman is heard saying in a video of the incident published by the Rome daily La Repubblica.
Ms. Abramovic said in a statement issued by the museum that she had been stunned by the aggression, but was unhurt.
She said a man approached her holding a “rather distorted” portrait of her, according to the statement. “He came forward, staring me straight in the eyes and I smiled thinking that it was a present for me,” Ms. Abramovic said. “In a fraction of a second I saw his expression change and become violent. You know, danger always comes very quickly, like death.” That’s when he smashed the portrait — with a frame, but no glass — over her head. “Boom,” he appears to be saying in the video.
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Ms. Abramovic said in her statement that once she recovered from her shock, she asked to meet her aggressor. “I wanted to know why he did this, why this hatred against me,” she said.
She said that he responded: “I had to do it for my art.”
Link to the rest at The New York Times
Isn’t this the spirit cooking woman who performed satanic rituals with Podesta and Hillary Clinton in the run up to the 2016 election? It takes one to know one.
I–I can’t even process that information.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/04/marina-abramovic-podesta-clinton-emails-satanism-accusations
The Guardian is about as reliable as Pravda, but there’s enough there to read between the lines. The fact that they felt it necessary to publish anything about Podesta’s and Clinton’s connections with this woman at all speaks volumes.
Do an image search for “Marina Abramovic spirit cooking” if you don’t believe me.
Wow…. just… wow.
“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. “
No, I am just continually surprised by the absurdity of some people. I don’t know why I am. I’ve seen a lot of really stupid people doing really stupid things and believing that they actually make sense. Or do something. Or work. I once refused to accept a crystal from a family member who thought I needed it for protection. “It’s a rock.” “No, it really works.” “It’s a rock.” “No, this will help you!” “It’s a rock, and I am not taking it.”
“She said a man approached her holding a “rather distorted” portrait of her, according to the statement. “He came forward, staring me straight in the eyes and I smiled thinking that it was a present for me,” Ms. Abramovic said. “In a fraction of a second I saw his expression change and become violent. You know, danger always comes very quickly, like death.” That’s when he smashed the portrait — with a frame, but no glass — over her head. “Boom,” he appears to be saying in the video.”
She made his portrait of her look so bad he had to destroy the evidence – she just happened to be the most convenient thing to smash it on.
For his crime he should be made to eat his bad portrait and frame – without salt.
I’m so glad you included the last sentence in the clip, PG. Up until then, I was thinking “just another nutcase” – but that told me the whole thing is simply the latest avant-garde trend for the daring artist.
Not that I’m going to try emulating this in the writing field. Most of my hoped-for colleagues would have me laid out on the ground about two seconds after I whacked them over the head with one of my books.
Yeah… “art.”