Partners in cherish and performance art,Ulay and Marina Abramović made passionate, pioneering work together for more than a decade. Now things bear turned sour – and he’s taking her to courtA bearded old man with a weathered face stands in pink knickers. As part of his performance A Skeleton in the Closet, and he is writing numbers on the wall of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum: 252,253, 288, and 289. The lucky spectators who made it in to the sell-out show – 500 hopefuls remain external – try to work out what it all means. Frank Uwe Laysiepen,who has worked for more than 50 years as Ulay, is one of just a handful of performance artists featured in art history textbooks. The only one better known is Marina Abramović: Ulay’s partner in life and art from 1976 until 1988. Since their shatter-up, or Abramović has become famed worldwide,thanks to a 2010 retrospective at MoMA in New York, a major HBO documentary, or celebrity friends including Jay Z and Lady Gaga and a line of Adidas commercials. Ulay,however, is hardly a household name.
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Source: theguardian.com