Jay Z was lauded by many for his performance art piece Picasso Baby.
But performance and conceptual artist Marina Abramović, who collaborated with Jay on that project, is NOT one of them.
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In fact, she says she is “very pissed” about how the whole thing went down!
According to Marina, she allowed Jay Z to adapt her work The Artist Is Present into what aired on HBO as Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film.
And in return she got nada! She revealed:
“I am very pissed by this since he adapted my work only under one condition: that he would help my institute, which he didn’t.
The day before, he came to my office and I gave him an entire power point presentation and said: okay, you can help me, because I really need help to build this thing. Then he just completely used me. And that wasn’t fair.”
Marina says her experience working with Jay Z was so bad, she won’t ever consider working with him again! She explained:
“In the end it was only a one-way transaction. I will never do it again, that I can say. Never. I was really naive in this kind of world. It was really new to me, and I had no idea that this would happen. It’s so cruel, it’s incredible. I will stay away from it for sure.”
Dayum! Sounds like she really got a raw deal!
Jay has yet to respond to Marina’s claim that he owes her.
[Image via HBO.]