![]() Some are transformed into objects while others are left immaterial. Ideas always play a central role in her work: sometimes she formulates them in a playful and humorous way, sometimes quite radically, and then again very poetically. From early on, she has been committed to peace in the world and the feminist cause. Since the beginning of her career, Yoko Ono has explored issues of socio-political importance that are still highly relevant today. The artist was personally involved in the exhibition’s conception. Some of them will be performed and exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Her performances and actions of the 1960s and 1970s have achieved cult status. 1933) is one of the most influential artists of our time. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland), Media Preview, March 3, 2022. Yoko Ono: This Room Moves at the Same Speed as the Clouds. But many of the works from back then are also being re-staged or brought to life for the exhibition.” (Mirjam Varadinis) “I didn’t want to do some kind of historical exhibition now, a classic retrospective, but to start with her commitment against violence against women and also with her commitment for peace, and also with her very radically expanded concept of art.… The focus is on the early work, i. This video provides you with an exhibition walkthrough and an introduction to the show by Mirjam Varadinis. Kunsthaus curator Mirjam Varadinis, in collaboration with Yoko Ono and her long-time curator Jon Hendricks, has selected some 60 of them to arrange into an exhibition, which is titled ‘This Room Moves at the Same Speed as the Clouds’. SCARCE, especially signed.Yoko Ono: This Room Moves at the Same Speed as the Clouds is an exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich that looks back at some of the most important works of the artist. Housed in a custom box by noted book artist Sjoerd Hofstra. Soiling to wrappers (as always), upper joint split at bottom and possibly later adhesive added to upper joint (presumably to prevent the first few leaves from separating - a common problem with this book). Small square quarto (5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in), original perfect-bound paper wrappers. Thus began a collaboration that in the coming year would change his life and have great significant for the Beatles" (Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians). With a £5000 contribution, he finally sponsored her 'Yoko Plus Me' show-a.k.a 'Half a Wind Show,' where the entire contents of an all-white bedroom were displayed neatly cut in half-at the Lisson Gallery, October 9-November 14, 1967. "Yoko hooked John's support for her artwork with a copy of her book Grapefruit, which she sent to him the following spring he may have likened the instructionals therein as similar to Timothy Leary's. This is the key to creativity, to being present, which Grapefruit insists, begins with every one of us" (David L. ![]() The universe is a place of wonder, Ono means to tell us, but we must remind ourselves to look. The instructions range from the inspirational ('A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality') to the prosaic ('Step in all the puddles in the city') to the surreal… What all this has to offer is a way of thinking, of being conscious in the world. ![]() "I’ve loved Grapefruit from the moment I laid eyes on it, loved its sense of whimsy, its sense of play. It appeared on the back cover of Lennon’s 1971 album 'Imagine' and is said to have inspired the title track… Dig a hole in your garden to /put them in. Perhaps the best-known effort in the collection is 'Cloud Piece,' originally composed in 1963, which reads, in its entirety: Imagine the clouds dripping. "Somewhere between Zen poetry and a series of instructions for living, Grapefruit is literature as conceptual art, a sheaf of 'event scores' that suggest how to turn daily life into something more engaged. One of only 500 copies, published by Ono's own imprint, Wunternaum Press, in Tokyo. Yoko has a lyrical, poetic dimension that sets her apart from the other conceptual artists." -David Bourdon, as quoted in The New York Times, Įxtremely Rare First Edition of Yoko Ono's highly influential conceptual art book, Signed and Inscribed by Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper: "To Claire / Yoko / 1965, Summer". "Grapefruit is one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960's.
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