yoko ono louisiana
YOKO ONO – Half-A-Wind-Show, A Retrospective.
What: visual art, poetry, film, performance art, and music.
When: June 7th – September 29th 2013
Where: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek. (www.louisiana.dk)
How much: 200 DKK for roundtrip train ticket & museum ticket (Buy it at Copenhagen Central Station)
Did you miss it? I almost did too. Fortunately I made it to the last day and had quite a “last-mover advantage” since it was the only day it was allowed to take pictures.
For those of you who don’t know, Yoko Ono is a unique but yet shelled avant-garde artist often seen as the “worlds most famous but unknown artist”. She was also married to John Lennon until he passed away! As her 80th birthday approached this year, she presented her most diverse and extensive range of oeuvres including 200 objects, films, music, photographs, poems, etc. at at Louisiana. Her works are not only within art, but also performance, music, peace and feminist movements – she’s equally talented in all of them.
The exhibition, which is the greatest one she has ever had in Europe up until now included some of her most recent works as well as some of her earliest ones. It reflected how important her oeuvres have been to the development of contemporary art on a global scale.
The essential elements of her oeuvres are not only objects but also ideas that she transmits through verbal instructions. Consequently she builds an interesting relationship with her viewers. She is the initiator and gives viewers an active role inviting them to use these instructions to interact in the creative process of her works if they are performable, or gives them food for thought if they are utopian. The thematic range of these ideas is enormous as they can be poetic, crazy, clever, social criticisms and involve subtle sense of humour.
At Louisiana she invited her visitors to “Watch the sun until it becomes square” and create a painting on a transparent plastic surface using
What: visual art, poetry, film, performance art, and music.
When: June 7th – September 29th 2013
Where: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek. (www.louisiana.dk)
How much: 200 DKK for roundtrip train ticket & museum ticket (Buy it at Copenhagen Central Station)
Did you miss it? I almost did too. Fortunately I made it to the last day and had quite a “last-mover advantage” since it was the only day it was allowed to take pictures.
For those of you who don’t know, Yoko Ono is a unique but yet shelled avant-garde artist often seen as the “worlds most famous but unknown artist”. She was also married to John Lennon until he passed away! As her 80th birthday approached this year, she presented her most diverse and extensive range of oeuvres including 200 objects, films, music, photographs, poems, etc. at at Louisiana. Her works are not only within art, but also performance, music, peace and feminist movements – she’s equally talented in all of them.
The exhibition, which is the greatest one she has ever had in Europe up until now included some of her most recent works as well as some of her earliest ones. It reflected how important her oeuvres have been to the development of contemporary art on a global scale.
The essential elements of her oeuvres are not only objects but also ideas that she transmits through verbal instructions. Consequently she builds an interesting relationship with her viewers. She is the initiator and gives viewers an active role inviting them to use these instructions to interact in the creative process of her works if they are performable, or gives them food for thought if they are utopian. The thematic range of these ideas is enormous as they can be poetic, crazy, clever, social criticisms and involve subtle sense of humour.
At Louisiana she invited her visitors to “Watch the sun until it becomes square” and create a painting on a transparent plastic surface using