November
15, 2005
Aziz
collaborates with performance artist Marina Abramovic at the
Guggenheim Museum in New York
Dutch fashion
designer Aziz and performance artist Marina Abramovic will collaborate
again. After the success of their collaboration during the Egon
Schiele project in the Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum, Abramovic
and Aziz have decided to continue their collaboration. Aziz
will be designing for Abramovic's new piece that will premiere
on November 15, 2005 in the Guggenheim Museum in New York as
part of her project Seven Easy Pieces.
About
Aziz
Aziz Bekkaoui (Berkane, 1969) graduated from the Fashion Department
at Arnhem Art Academy in 1995. His career immediately took off:
He won the 1996 Grand Prix for the best women's collection during
the XIe International Festival des Jeunes Stylistes Hyères.
Soon after he was selected by Paco Rabanne as most promising
young designer to show his collection at the Louvre during the
Paco Rabanne Couture presentations. In the years following,
Bekkaoui showed his collection in among others Amsterdam, London,
Austria and France. He has exhibited in among others the Centraal
Museum in Utrecht, the Musée de la Mode in Paris, the
Municipal Museum in The Hague, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
About
Marina Abramovic: Seven Easy Pieces
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during
the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance
as a visual art form. The body has always been both her subject
and medium, and the parameters of her early performances were
determined by her endurance. In Seven Easy Pieces Abramovic
reenacts seminal performance works by Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys,
Valie Export, Bruce Nauman, and Gina Pane dating from the 1960s
and 1970s, interpreting them as one would a musical score and
documenting their realization. The project is premised on the
fact that little documentation exists for most performance works
from this critical early period; one often has to rely upon
testimonies from witnesses or photographs that show only portions
of any given piece. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibility
of redoing and preserving such performative work. Presented
in the Rotunda over a seven-day period, the works include a
new piece by Abramovic on November 15 created for this project.
Contact:
Guggenheim
Museum New York
1071 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10128
Tel.: 212-423-3500
www.guggenheim.org
Studio Aziz
Arnold Dolfing
Tel.: +31-20-428-3235
arnold@aziz.nl
www.aziz.nl
