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Yoko Ono: Para ver el cielo

Yoko Ono: Para ver el cielo

20 december 2017 to 10 December 2021*. Long term installation.

Curator: Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya

* Mend Piece In Four Cordoba (1966-2021) and Wish Tree For Peace (1996-2017) until 7 December
* To See The Sky. Cordoba Version (2015-2017) until 10 December.

Yoko Ono (Tokyo, 1933) is a pioneering figure in conceptual art and performance. Her works question conventions and address the fundamental themes of human existence. Some of the keys to understanding Ono's work are her confidence in the power of the imagination, her political commitment, her sense of humour and of the absurd, and her sensitivity to issues such as international conflicts and women's roles in society. Concepts, not materials, are the essential ingredients of her productions. Many of her pieces are poetical, absurd, or Utopian, whilst others are very specific and attainable, but all reflect the artist's sense of humour and her sharp social criticism. Some of her ideas become objects, while others remain in immaterial form.

In the 1960s Yoko Ono burst onto the New York avant-garde art scene as part of the Fluxus movement, in which she was closely tied to other artists such as the composer John Cage (1912-1992); George Maciunas (1931-1978), and filmmaker Jonas Mekas (b. 1922). In 1961, Maciunas staged Ono's first solo show at his AG Gallery. It was one of New York's earliest exhibitions of conceptual painting and drawing. Also in 1961, the artist had an individual concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. The artist returned to Tokyo in 1962, where she gave her first individual recital and show in Japan at the Sogetsu Art Center, a major centre of experimentation in a variety of artistic disciplines, which remained active from 1958 to 1971. On her return to New York in 1964, Ono continued to give recitals and performances at the Carnegie Recital Hall (1965) and other venues, and she took part in several Fluxus events that included artists such as Nam June Paik (1932-2006) and Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015). In 1966 she moved to London and was involved in several performances at the Destruction in the Arts Symposium (DIAS).

The installation at Cordoba's Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía includes three works made specifically by the artist for this exhibition, namely To See The Sky. Cordoba Version (2015-2017), Mend Piece In Four Cordoba (1966-2021), and Wish Tree For Peace (1996-2017), this last located at the entrance to the C3A.

 

 

Photo credit: Yoko Ono ascending "To See The Sky" at YOKO ONO: ONE WOMAN SHOW, MoMA, NYC 2015.  Photo by Greg Kadel ©Yoko Ono

 

Download Gallery Sheet (To See The Sky).
Download Gallery Sheet (Mend Piece In Four Cordoba).

 

Photo Album on Flickr (To See The Sky),

Photo Album on Flickr (Mend Piece In Four Cordoba).

Image gallery

/image/journal/article?img_id=155738746&t=1639483651884 Crédito fotográfico: Yoko Ono ascending "To See The Sky" at YOKO ONO: ONE WOMAN SHOW, MoMA, NYC 2015. Photo by Greg Kadel ©Yoko Ono
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Crédito fotográfico: Yoko Ono ascending "To See The Sky" at YOKO ONO: ONE WOMAN SHOW, MoMA, NYC 2015. Photo by Greg Kadel ©Yoko Ono