Yoko Ono: ‘Dream Come True’, offers us a comprehensive retrospective of Ono’s artwork, laced with an anti-war message that remains just as pertinent today.
Gathering more than 80 artworks, the multimedia exhibition features film footage, video, installations and sound recordings produced from the early 1950’s to present, tracing Ono’s concept of art as a permanently evolving pièce de résistance.
Yoko Ono is an architect of creative practice, a conductor of the orchestra of the public psyche. Her performance exhibit which is located at MALBA in Buenos Aires throughout this summer is an abstract synopsis of Ono’s distinguished career. In much of her performance work she works to create a sentiment of social unification and community by engineering an immersive, collaborative and interactive experience for her audience to engage in.
In Ono’s own words, and in her art pieces themselves, there is a constant struggle between permanence and change.
Ono is associated with conceptual and performance art, as well as the neo-avant-garde Fluxus movement and the happenings of the 1960’s. She was one of the first to question the concept of the work of art and the artwork as object. She uses a clear and universal language to produce objects, events, rituals and actions that culminate in the precise terms she formulates with audience participation.
The «Instruction Pieces» that Ono has been working on for over 60 years, consist of simple and poetic messages that invite viewers to perform specific actions such as ‘listen to the sound of the earth turning’ or ‘light a match and watch until it goes out’.
The exhibition in MALBA, Buenos Aires pictured above.
In the framework of ‘Dream Come True’,
Yoko Ono has invited Latin American women who have been subjected to gender violence to from part of the Arising / Resurgiendo project. The work compiles the testimonies received – a text that describes the experience and a photograph of the eyes of the participant, in an installation in MALBA and on the exhibition’s website.
The exhibition in MALBA, Buenos Aires pictured above.
The exhibition in MALBA, Buenos Aires pictured above.In ‘Dream Come True’ Ono expands the breadth of a body of work with strong political and social commitment, specifically to the feminist, pacifist and environmentalist movements. She invites all to embark on an experience that will transform our relationship to ourselves and others.
MALBA will publish two books: The exhibition catalogue published solely in Spanish at the explicit request of the artist and a RE-EDITION of 1,000 copies of Ono’s ‘Grapefruit’ which was released in 1964.
In 1970 the first Spanish language edition of ‘Grapefruit’ («Pomelo» in Spanish) was published in Buenos Aires by Ediciones de la Flor publishing house. The edition was so popular it is STILL SOLD OUT.
EXCITING!!!
The exhibition will be open up until October 31, 2016. For more info here are all the details below.
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Writen by Todd Hodson
Yoko Ono|Dream Come True
June 24–October 31, 2016
MALBA
Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hours: Wednesday 12–9pm, Thursday–Monday 12–8pm
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