YOKO ONO – HALF-A-WIND SHOW
A Retrospective

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Yoko Ono is one of the most prominent artists of our time. In 2013 she will be 80, and to mark the occasion Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is showing a major retrospective exhibition with a selection of the artist’s
characteristic works, demonstrating the diversity of media and disciplines in Yoko Ono’s artistic production, and illustrating the central themes with which Yoko Ono continues to work vitally in her lifelong oeuvre.

Yoko Ono is a pioneer in the artistic fields to which she has devoted her life over the years: performance art, visual art, installation, film, music, literature and actions. In the early sixties she was already known for her ground-breaking experimental, conceptual and performance works, which were shown at the time in New
York and later in Japan. The Instructions for Paintings exhibited in 1961 and 1962, like her famous
performance Cut Piece (1962), as well as the book Grapefruit from 1964, helped to consolidate her position as a leading artist in the New York avant-garde milieu.
The point of departure for the Louisiana’s retrospective is Yoko Ono’s classic works from the 1960s and 1970s, elucidating among other things her crucial influence on the Fluxus movement and later conceptual and performance art. But poetry, film, photography, drawing and music, all important media for her artistic expression, are also covered. In addition several major installations and brand new works are featured in the exhibition.

Yoko Ono’s strong commitment to peace and human rights and her enduring efforts to reach out and engage in dialogue with people all over the world with her messages, among other ways through social media and ‘Participation Pieces’, can also be experienced in the exhibition.

The exhibition YOKO ONO – HALF-A-WIND SHOW has been mounted in collaboration with Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, where it will be shown from 15 February - 12 May 2013, after which it will be on show at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.


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