Rijeka biennial festival for young artists, Marina within, 1971

ABRAMOVIĆ, Marina, et al.: 6. BIENNALE MLADIH [6th Biennal Art Festival]. Juni, Juli, August 1971. Moderna Galerija Rijeka. With 67 b/w illustrations after works by Marina Abramović and 66 other artists. Edited by Boris Vižintin. Rijeka: Moderna Galerija 1971.

8to. 36 pages. Cliché and offset printing on glossy paper, saddle stitched in original multicolour pictorial wrapper on blue stock.

Content: The exposition series for young artists „Biennale Mladih“ took place in Yugoslav Rijeka (nowadays Croatia) from 1960 to 1991 and experienced a total of 16 editions. Present catalogue for the 6th edition covers works by and short biographies (in Serbo-Croatian language) of 67 authors, Marina's oil painting »Prostor« (»Space«, 150x150 cm) being the first mentioned. In this period the artist was about to finish her post-graduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

All entries with b/w photo reproduction of the work in question, as well as it's title, size and the techniques used by the artist.

Condition: Rear side of wrappers minimally worn, otherwise very well preserved copy indeed.

Rarity: WorldCat records 1 copy only in institutional holdings outside former Yugoslavia, at the Stedelijk (Amsterdam).