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According to The Guardian reports , vanguard artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen (also known as Ulay) died of cancer at the age of 76. Ourin’s groundbreaking performance in collaboration with Marina Abramović, the mother of performance art, is world-renowned for decades of love and hate.
Abravich’s news on social platforms confirmed the death of Uray: “Today, I learned sadly that my friend and past lover Uray died. As an outstanding artist, A beautiful human being, he will be deeply missed. It is a little relief that his artistic and cultural heritage will remain forever. “
Uray and Abramovich are artistically inseparable. Guardian comment: For ten years, the couple have lived together in Citroen vans. Most of the works are full of danger and endurance, aiming to destroy their own ego and become a single artistic entity.
The news of the death of Wu Lei came, and many people immediately thought of the “One Thousand Years at a Time” staged by the two in the MONO Art Museum in 2010.
At that time, after more than a decade of cooperation and love-hate conflict, Abramovich and Uray had split up for 12 years. In Abramovich’s MoMA Retrospective, she performed The Artist Is PreSent), spent 716 hours, staring in silence with every stranger who voluntarily sat opposite her.
She closed her eyes, and when each stranger sat down, she slowly opened it again. Her eyes were calm and silent, like a bottomless lake. A stranger burst into tears under her eyes, and she remained motionless. In this grand silence, everyone had their own mind.
Until Ouray appears. Abramovich closed his eyes, Uray came across to her, sat down, stretched out his legs in a nervous manner, and looked at Abramovich.
Abramovich opened his eyes, startled in surprise, then smiled at the corners of his mouth, and then blinked, holding back tears. The audience nearby couldn’t bear to watch the scene and wept, so don’t go away.
Abramovich then stretched out his hands to Ure, Ure held her hand, the two looked at each other for a thousand years.
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Youtube ’s videos are mostly comments a few years ago. After Wu Lei ’s death, people flocked to this video. Some netizens left a message: Wu Lei ’s death, I look back at the best in the history of performance art Instant one.
After Uray left, Abramovich closed his eyes again, waiting for the next stranger to arrive. After opening her eyes again, she controlled her emotions several times. Some netizens said that she seemed to be hopeful that when she opened her eyes, Wu Lei had not left.
A comment four years ago said: If you don’t know the background of the story, you may not understand this video.
If time can be reversed, the background of the story will be told like this:
12 years from the beginning of 10,000 years, the world-renowned artist couple decided to take a spiritual journey on the Great Wall of China to end their love.
Urey starts from Jiayuguan, Abramovich starts from Shanhaiguan, one goes west and one east. Each person walks 2,500 kilometers. They meet at the Erlang Mountain meeting in Shanxi and make a final farewell. Abramovich described the journey as “a completely private drama.”
She conceived the journey in a dream, and in this relationship full of mysticism, vitality and attraction, this is the most appropriate and romantic ending she thinks. They need a certain form as the ending, which is very glorious. In a way, this is very dramatic, more like the ending of a movie …
They meet, hug, and laugh at the camera. respectively.
“No matter what you do, you end up very lonely.” Abramovich said.
In a long walk, she reinterpreted her relationship with the natural world. The metal on the ground will affect her mood and state, and she also ponders the Chinese myth that the Great Wall is described as the “Dragon of Energy”.
Eight years ago, she planned this romantic plan. I didn’t expect that until the relationship between the two completely collapsed and collapsed, she finally obtained the Chinese permission to execute it.
In the seven years from 1981 to 1987, they played 22 games Nightsea Crossing. In these performances, the two sit quietly in a chair and face each other for seven hours each day. They try to show that, although the outside remains stationary, the inside consciousness continues.
Although the performance is still going on, the emotions of the two have cracked. This is the day when they quarrel and torture each other madly, and also the day when the Great Wall plan is slowly brewing.
In 1980 they performed , the two keep balance with each other on both sides of the bow and arrow, the arrows point to Abramovich’s heart.
The tighter the arrow collapses, the easier it is for Uray to kill Abramovich with one finger. But Abramovich also mastered the most important part of the bow. Some critics have analyzed that this work implies that she is devoting her life while mastering this relationship.
Works in 1978 In” AAA-AAA “, they face each other and open their mouths and make a long sound. They gradually approach each other until they finally yell close to each other’s mouth. The performance lasts 15 minutes , Continued until their voices were out of sync and failed due to continuous yelling. This piece shows their interest in endurance and duration, and explores the aggressiveness between men and women.
And a year ago, the way they explored art was kissing. Breathing In, Breathing Out In a>, the two plugged their noses with a cigarette filter, then pressed his mouth together, breathing back and forth through the exchange of breath for as long as possible, and eventually fell into a coma and the lungs were full of carbon dioxide. This piece explores the idea of one person absorbing the life of another, exchanging and destroying each other.
In the same year, in the work Imponderabilia , heThey are naked, standing on both sides of the door frame, and the public must squeeze between them and choose to face one of them in order to pass. This classic work weighs the different sides of human nature between desire and embarrassment, showing the playfulness and ambition of the two.
In Relation in Time They sat back to back, tied together with ponytails for up to 16 hours. The two continue to be closely integrated in the work.
Time is reversed again, in 1976, in the work 《Relationship in Space “(Relationship in Space) , they met naked for an hour and repeatedly, mixing the energy of men and women into the third part called” that self “.
Time comes to 1975.
Abramovich and Ouray met in Amsterdam. Uray dressed as half a man and half a woman, and went to the airport to meet Abramovich, which fascinated her. She recalled that the German photographer was a “self-made man” and lived a free life. Oury also remembered that the young Serbian performing artist was “very deadly” and had “a huge Balkan-style temperament and endurance.”
Weird, joke, and fit. The two quickly fell in love.
That’s how the story started. At that time, Wu Lei did not die, the Great Wall parted, MoMA’s deep glance had not happened, and they were completely unknown about what would happen in the future.
Love, before it all starts.