"The moment I stepped in front of the public in my first performance, I experienced my transformation immediately, like I was hatching out of an egg. In my mind I was the ugliest kid in my school." Then she found the medium of performance. And I had a baby face with an impossibly big nose. My mother cut my hair way above the ear and fixed it with a pin, and put me in heavy wool dresses. I had skinny legs, orthopedic shoes, and ugly glasses. Therefore my teenage years were desperately awkward and unhappy. "At one point in my diary I wrote that I felt ugly, fat and unwanted. "Since I was very young I always felt like a misfit," she writes in her new illustrated version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale. Featured image is reproduced from 'The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen & Marina Abramovi?'įROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE Celebrate Women's History Month with Marina Abramovic's rendition of 'The Ugly Duckling' As a child, Marina Abramovic identified with the story of the Ugly Duckling. This volume is the second publication in a series of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales illustrated by contemporary artists, following the huge success of 2016’s The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen & Yayoi Kusama. Now, in this beautiful new edition of the classic fairy tale, Abramovic reimagines the story by adding new pen and crayon illustrations to the original text.
I, too, was the ugly duckling.”Īndersen’s story of the ugly duckling that endures torment and loneliness before becoming a beautiful swan has resonated with readers since it was first published in 1843. “As a young child and growing adolescent, I felt a complete identification with the story. “I had a strong personal desire to illustrate Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Ugly Duckling,’” reflects pioneering performance artist Marina Abramovic (born 1946). Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale, illustrated by Marina Abramovic
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