Nearly two years after Jay Z’s “Picasso Baby” music video was filmed at Pace Gallery in New York City, the woman instrumental in inspiring the visual, Marina Abramović says she felt “completely used” by the Brooklyn, New York rapper.
According to the performance artist, who recently spoke with Spike Art magazine, Jay Z was to support her institute in exchange for her assistance with the music video. In the end, Abramović says it ended up being “a one-way transaction.”
“I am very pissed by this, since he adapted my work only under one condition: that he would help my institute,” Abramović said. “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. This is very different from Lady Gaga, for example, who has done great work for me. Just by having 45 million followers, she brought all these young kids into my public. 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.”
Abramović went on to describe what happened to her as “cruel” and added that she’ll never take part in something similar again.
“And in the end it was only a one-way transaction,” she said. “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. I’s so cruel, it’s incredible. I will stay away from it for sure.”
According to Complex, despite her recent comments about Jay Z and the “Picasso Baby” music video, Abramović was previously quoted as saying the experience “was great” and brought about “so much energy.”
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(May 20, 2015)
UPDATE: New York dealer and “Picasso Baby” video producer Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is defending Jay Z against Abramović’s accusations, according to artnet News.
“Thank you for your donation,” says a receipt from Marina Abramović’s Hudson, New York institute, according to Rohatyn, who read parts of the document to artnet News over the phone today, the site reports.
The receipt is numbered W984804 and acknowledges a substantial donation, Rohatyn says.
if it wasnt about the money… how did he NOT bring awareness to performance art and your institute? the entire video was a commercial for your school, ma’am, which you had a cameo in.
i dont get it… *sigh*
I agree. I had no clue who she was before the vid and after I still really don’t know like that, I just know she was the woman all up in Jay-Z’s face when he was spittin.
Jay needs to concentrate on actually putting out good hip hop before his team tells him to start referencing noted modern art to stay edgy to his new 1% rich friends.
Lemme guess, you think Life Is Good was such an incredible album, don’t you? Hov always put out the dopest hip hop. MCHG was the best album of 2013. Go back and listen to that again, it clearly went over your head.
Let me guess, you’re a white kid that lives in his parent basement and would probably be scared of a black person, if you met one in real life.
Guess what?
No one gives two fucks about what you think,
And the L clearly goes to Fuck Queensbridge, wear it in pride! Magna Carter was shit on all levels, eat a Justin Timberlake dick.
And the L clearly goes to Fuck Queensbridge, wear it in pride!
Magna Carter was shit on all levels, eat a Justin Timberlake dick.
she got more face time than others I would have liked to see in that video. I don’t don’t know if they hand shook some side deal but this sounds like she wanted him to promote for her in a specific way
u another gay rapper busting gaps a JayZ – while you caught up in the rapporture im in jamaica sipping dacquires!!! – Who the f**k still listens to JayZ ???? They say 30s the new 20 but u 50 years old !!!!! JayZ looking like Larry Holmes flabby and sick LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
all you jay z fans go eat a D**k – swagger jacka robbed BIG rhymes – PAC didnt even like u (robbed half of his music) – nas ethered u – big pun murked u – big L destroyed u lyrically – and u say your the greatest ( and u still rapping at 55 ) all you JayZ stans like nelly too???????
lolololololo.llololo
Zzzzzzzzz
now who looks salty and desperate now. even got some drooling lames in the comment section to throw darts without learning how to aim first! LOLOLOLOL!!!!! Y’all LOVE to have your brains abused online
“bryce cmon going to sneaker shop c if the girls around” “naw, i’m heading to dx c-sec like bein mindf**ked” “wtf??” “come over got new lime monster & xxl hot cheetos” *mark has unfriended you* “woof” says your one last friend smithers, your dog *pees on your pillow*
He approached it like a collaboration. Don’t be so salty.
And she has officially aplogized. What an idiot
only so she doesnt get blackballed by the illuminati
jay using people? what’s new?
Haha! Jokes on you. Read the entire article. He did donate initially.