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Gina Pane (Biarritz, May 24, 1939 – Paris, March 6, 1990) was a French artist. She was one of the founders of the 1970s Body Art movement in France, called "Art corporel."

Early life and education
Pane was born in France to an Italian father and Austrian mother. She lived in Turin, Italy, between the ages of five and twenty-one, when she moved to Paris.

In Paris, Pane studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

Work
Pane's early work was in painting, but in 1965 her desire to move beyond the traditional constraints of painting led her to sculpture. She was also interested in exploring ways the body could be incorporated into and explored through art. This interest in the body was at the heart of her next transition, which took place in 1968. In what was to be her first performance, Pane moved a pile of stones from the shade of a tree into the light. By the 1970s, she was experimenting in what was to become known as Body art.

Pane's best known works, which she called "actions," were those in which she inflicted physical harm on herself in order to shock her audience out of complacence. For example, in Hommage a une jeune drogue (1971) she washed her hands in scalding hot chocolate, and in Escalade non anaesthesie (1971) she climbed up and down a ladder affixed with sharp, pointed objects until the pain became unbearable. In The Conditioning (1973) she lay on a metal bedframe placed over burning candles.

The Conditioning was recreated by Marina Abramović as part of her Seven Easy Pieces at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2005.

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 * kamel mennour - Gina Pane